News

Foxconn Reneges On Statements Regarding Apple HDTV

Remember when Foxconn got loose lips and started popping off about a certain Apple HDTV that’s in development? Seems like someone at Apple put the fear of god into its manufacturing partner, because all of a sudden, Foxconn is claiming that they had “neither confirmed, nor speculated” about any such thing.


May 12, 2012
News

Apple TV Set Confirmed By Foxconn Boss

Hell? Frozen! The fabled Apple television set has been confirmed by Foxconn’s bossman Terry Gou. According to Gou, Foxconn is getting ready for the manufacturing of Apple’s TV. What will this magical device have?


May 11, 2012
News

Apple Is Using Its Mountain Of Cash To Improve Working Conditions In China

Working conditions in Foxconn’s Chinese manufacturing plants have been the turd floating around Apple’s Scrooge McDuck swimming pool of money for a while. Now Apple is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to improve working conditions in its plants, and they’re splitting the cost to get there.


April 13, 2012
Computing

Watch How Your iPad Really Gets Made

A lot has been said and written about the conditions under which Foxconn workers construct the millions of iPads that are sold each quarter. But strip all that away, focus on the process itself, and what are you left with? Turns outs out a lot of painstaking detail and far more hand assembly than you might have imagined.


March 31, 2012
News

Foxconn Workers: Please Let Us Work More!

After the people Apple hired to clear its name wrote up a gloomy report of Foxconn working conditions, the manufacturer vowed to reform. First up: shorter, legal working days. But now these overworked workers want to keep overworking. What?


March 30, 2012
Computing

The Full Foxconn Report: Here’s Everything You Need To Know

The Fair labour Association, a workers’ rights watchdog group, was hired by Apple to inspect its Foxconn operation — under a considerable amount of flack recently. So what’d they find? Illegal working hours, legal pay, crooked unions, and danger.


Gadgets

Glorious Apple Leader Surprises iPad Minions With Foxconn Visit And Smiles

Apple CEO and fleece jacket advocate Tim Cook is in China, and decided to swing by the factory that cranks out Apple’s pads and phones. Maybe it’s just all the n-hexane in the air, but things look cheery! Extra rations!


March 21, 2012
Computing

iPad Employees Worked Fewer Hours During Peak iPad Production Run

Gizmodo AU

Apple sold millions of iPads over the weekend, and that would presumably mean that hundreds of thousands of workers slaved extra-long hours to produce them all, right? Not so, according to Apple’s latest Supplier Responsibility report.


Geek Out

Steve Wozniak: I Applaud Mike Daisey

Since This American Life retracted its episode about Foxconn working conditions, there’s been no shortage of Mike Daisey hate. But it turns out that Woz seems to think Mike Daisey’s not all bad.


March 19, 2012
Computing

Did Mike Daisey Sprout A Flower Of Truth, Or A Bed Of Lies?

Gizmodo AU

I’m a little split on the whole Mike Daisey issue; on the one hand theatre should be free to present anything it likes, and use storytelling for effect. On the other hand, up until now, Daisey hasn’t presented anything he’s said as being anything but the truth.