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Public radio reporter Rob Schmitz knows the real way to get to the bottom of an issue, like the production of iPads and other consumer electronics at Foxconn. Schmitz, the Shanghai Bureau Chief for the American Public Media program Marketplace, got first-hand access to tape how iPads are actually m ... Full Article »
As we get nearer and nearer to the time of year when Apple routinely releases a new iPhone (traditionally summer, but deeper into the fall last year), the rumors about the iPhone 5 are picking up and starting to coalesce. A newly released video from TV Tokyo shows an interview with a Foxconn recrui ... Full Article »
The results are in: the Fair Labor Association has issued a report on Apple device assembler Foxconn, stating it found “significant issues with working conditions at three factories in China” operated by the major Apple supply chain member. As Mashable reports, the FLA released its report after ... Full Article »
It seems that after all the intense discussion of working conditions in China at plants used by Apple and other electronics companies to manufacture their products, Apple CEO Tim Cook is getting to the bottom of the situation himself. According to a story from Bloomberg, Apple’s head honcho visit ... Full Article »
Rumor has it that Foxconn has received a big new order of iPhones and is looking to hire new workers to make sure it can fill Apple’s request before the launch of the next generation of the company’s smartphone later this year. According to SlashGear, a news report out of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China ... Full Article »
Early inspections into mobile device manufacturer Foxconn resulted in praise from the independent nonprofit group hired by Apple to inspect working conditions at plants. However, some see this praise as premature and worrisome. As The New York Times reports, Fair Labor Association President, Auret ... Full Article »
Apple has announced that an independent organization called the Fair Labor Association is conducting inspections of plants in China where Apple devices are manufactured. This is in response to controversy over working conditions that kicked up in the last few weeks. The inspectors headed to plants ... Full Article »
Apple is still feeling backlash from recent negative attention directed at factories in its device-making supply chain overseas, with the most recent fallout centering around customers creating an online petition asking for an “ethical” iPhone. The trouble started for Apple last week, when the ... Full Article »
After criticism of the conditions under which employees work in Apple’s supply chain, Apple CEO Tim Cook released a statement to Apple employees stating the company hasn’t turned a blind eye to the working conditions of its factory partners, and the company will be investigating those factorie ... Full Article »
Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn, one of the companies that assembles Apple’s iOS mobile devices, intends to double the size of one of its biggest plant. This could allow it to produce twice as many iPhones. The plant is located in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou and is one which the company use ... Full Article »
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