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Atman

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5. Okay, are you paying attention at all?

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:17 PM

Jan 2012

These aren't "Apple plants." They are Foxconn plants, and Foxconn is making the electronics for all of those other companies listed. There isn't a specific "Apple" plant. One day a line runs iPhones. Maybe the next it makes Samsung phones. One line is running HP products. It's not like all the people on the Apple line are running and jumping out the windows while the HP and Samsung guys whistle while they work. It's is one company -- Foxconn -- manufacturing products for many other companies, of which Apple is but one.

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Apple's Foreign Suppliers Demonstrate Widespread Scamming and Horrific Abuse of Employees [View all] Karmadillo Jan 2012 OP

A few companies who use the same suppliers: onehandle Jan 2012 #1

How many of those companies are addressing this, as Apple is? Atman Jan 2012 #2

That's because most of the suicides are at Apple plants. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #4

Okay, are you paying attention at all? Atman Jan 2012 #5

True, but Foxconn has somehow become associated primarily with Apple. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #6

But YOU just made that association! Atman Jan 2012 #7

Okay, fair call. But Foxconn did put up nets to catch the slave labor trying to escape life. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #8

ttt Blue_Tires Jan 2012 #3