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Egnever

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37. Why is that?

Reply to Flatulo (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 17, 2013, 09:11 PM

Aug 2013

Google just built a new manufacturing plant in Texas to make phones. Why cant apple do it?

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Apple Goes On A Hiring Spree In China [View all] OhioChick Aug 2013 OP

Apple uses slave labor to make their products AgingAmerican Aug 2013 #1

Sadly, so does just about everyone else. nt Flatulo Aug 2013 #2

Sadly, Apple can afford not too... ChromeFoundry Aug 2013 #3

Of course. They could build a fully robotic factory which would not employ many workers, Flatulo Aug 2013 #4

i have been in a few of those factories, Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2013 #30

That's right - feeding the machines. Yet even these super-modern plants cannot Flatulo Aug 2013 #31

Why is that? Egnever Aug 2013 #37

The President personally asked Apple to bring some iPhone jobs back here, and Flatulo Aug 2013 #38

Obviously they couldnt make them all here Egnever Aug 2013 #39

Yep... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2013 #15

True AgingAmerican Aug 2013 #35

Some of those hired are to monitor working conditions at factories. Can you prove they alfredo Aug 2013 #21

Is Apple Corp just full of a bunch of lying fucks, the worst of modern plantation owners? jtuck004 Aug 2013 #5

To be honest, I have a hard time feeling sorry for the Chinese laborer. It's up to them to demand Flatulo Aug 2013 #6

So McDonalds employees should just insist on better wages, be thrown out on their jtuck004 Aug 2013 #7

I'd like to see all workers organize. I'm just saying that we can't do it for the Chinese. Flatulo Aug 2013 #10

Yeah, that's true. I just wish we had better examples for them to follow. jtuck004 Aug 2013 #11

In my lifetime... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2013 #16

Maybe. I think it's a different world than I grew up in, and I don't think a lot of jtuck004 Aug 2013 #18

I was thinking the same thing, but maybe for different reasons. Flatulo Aug 2013 #19

Yes, on both of those points. One of the big subsidies that workers have had jtuck004 Aug 2013 #20

Speaking as one who's been outsourced three times, I don't think those jobs are coming back here. Flatulo Aug 2013 #25

Exactly. If one reads through the history from about 1865 to the 1920ish era jtuck004 Aug 2013 #26

I think you might be falling into the MBA mindset seabeckind Aug 2013 #28

I spent most of my career as a design engineer in the tech sector, specifically disk drives. Flatulo Aug 2013 #34

They are doing plenty of "demanding". pampango Aug 2013 #32

Why didn't you highlight Apple's response? alfredo Aug 2013 #22

In the article it appears that despite their assurances many bad practices continue jtuck004 Aug 2013 #23

Labor laws have to change in China. As I said they can plant the seed of reform, but it is up alfredo Aug 2013 #24

Look. Until "the west" understands the concept of "fair trade" rather than "free trade", delrem Aug 2013 #8

^this^ defacto7 Aug 2013 #9

f*** them Skittles Aug 2013 #12

Hold your tongue and say Apple... tofuandbeer Aug 2013 #13

Not manufacturing.... TM99 Aug 2013 #14

Thx, yes. tofuandbeer Aug 2013 #17

Meanwhile Google starts manufacturing phones in Texas Egnever Aug 2013 #27

Didn't they sell more iphones in china than the US last year? n/t hughee99 Aug 2013 #29

That's indeed happening. US-based companies are looking at the Far East not just as a source Flatulo Aug 2013 #33

iPhone market share has been plummeting in China recently. cprise Aug 2013 #36