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Pholus

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17. iPed's and aPads and bears, OH MY!!!

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:53 PM

Mar 2012

First off, I'm excited by the staged photo-op released by a PR person. "Picture handouts dated March 28 and e-mailed to Reuters show Cook seen smiling and meeting workers in the newly built Foxconn ZhengzhouTechnology Park in the north central province of Hebei. The facility employs 120,000 people, the handouts said."

Now the end of each article describes the actual reason Cook even bothered getting on the plane......

"Apple is embroiled in a long-running dispute with Proview - a financially weak technology company that claims to have registered the iPad trademark - that is making its way through Chinese courts and threatens to disrupt iPad sales."

Enjoy ALL the trappings that come with free trade there, Timmy. Guess why we know you won't be moving the corporate headquarters anytime soon -- you need the lawyers.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Foxconn's iPhone Plant In China [View all] onehandle Mar 2012 OP

he's going there to twist arms in an attempt to pressure mangement into keep the leftyohiolib Mar 2012 #1

I imagine that your mind-reading skills could be put to better use than this. nt. harmonicon Mar 2012 #18

my mind reading skills are such that i can do both leftyohiolib Mar 2012 #26

Even though Daisey's "report" was less than factual, the number of suicides does indicate oppressive gateley Mar 2012 #2

Conditions there are oppressive, however the suicide rate is lower than the average Chinese factory. onehandle Mar 2012 #3

I didn't know that about the suicide rate -- wow. gateley Mar 2012 #7

I inhabit several Apple forums and call for Apple to buy inert American factories... onehandle Mar 2012 #10

I don't understand all the tax stuff, but I've heard that Apple won't be bringing back those gateley Mar 2012 #23

apple can blame what ever apple wants. it has to do with control leftyohiolib Mar 2012 #27

It has nothing to do with taxes quakerboy Mar 2012 #38

Why should the onus be on manufacturers and those they contract with? harmonicon Mar 2012 #19

Excellent point! Outsourcing jobs should be AGAINST THE LAW here... Peace Patriot Mar 2012 #36

Oh how nice! A damage control visit. Crowman1979 Mar 2012 #4

I will never buy an apple product magic59 Mar 2012 #5

Whatever you posted this on was made by Chinese slave labor. nt onehandle Mar 2012 #6

+1 nt. harmonicon Mar 2012 #20

What's your phone? What's your computer? Are you going to boycott those companies as gateley Mar 2012 #9

I am not going to buy anything Apple because I don't need any of their products Kolesar Mar 2012 #16

Those are valid reasons, IMO -- but I just don't understand those who gateley Mar 2012 #21

Well it got results, didn't it? Pholus Mar 2012 #22

As I said, the hope is that all this attention will result in some help. gateley Mar 2012 #24

That's reasonable of course... Pholus Mar 2012 #25

Yeah, in theory, but they seem to have all slipped beneath the radar gateley Mar 2012 #30

I'm not clear what part was not factual... Pholus Mar 2012 #33

I was wrong, then -- I thought it was conjecture (or something). But look: gateley Mar 2012 #34

how about keep the computer and quit buying the icrap garbage they keep pumping out leftyohiolib Mar 2012 #28

Don't fret the naysayers. raouldukelives Mar 2012 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Mar 2012 #13

China of course. raouldukelives Mar 2012 #15

Sound of crickets chirping.... Pholus Mar 2012 #32

Eh, it's all good. raouldukelives Mar 2012 #35

You make a good point... Peace Patriot Mar 2012 #39

Wow. Great food for thought! raouldukelives Mar 2012 #40

Surprisingly, POW barracks in Germany always seemed so nice ... when the Red Cross visited. PSPS Mar 2012 #8

How on earth is this LBN? savalez Mar 2012 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Mar 2012 #14

The "legitimate press"? Peace Patriot Mar 2012 #37

iPed's and aPads and bears, OH MY!!! Pholus Mar 2012 #17

The part I find hard to swallow is that Mike Daisey has an 'upscale' NY City Apartment. Bluenorthwest Mar 2012 #29

LOL!!!! Pholus Mar 2012 #31