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  • Foxconn's expansion into India isn't going as well as hoped

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    The Chinese employees believe India will need to adopt more of the Chinese work ethic to take over more iPhone production. - This is nonsensical on multiple levels. Indians in general do not lack work ethic. It is the Foxconn & Apple management's exploitative attitude that is at fault here.

    Apple even got the labor laws in my state (Tamilnadu) amended  to exploit the workers in favor of Apple. The law changes happened on a Friday (Apr-21-2023), soon after Apple's CEO visited India early this year. Luckily for the workers in Tamilnadu, the alliance partners of the ruling party, labour unions and the media protested very strongly over the weekend. And the law changes were put on hold on Monday (Apr-24-2023) and withdrawn a week later on May-02-2023 (Tamil Nadu Withdraws 12-Hour Shifts A Day Rule In Factories (ndtv.com)). Foxconn and Apple needs to be called out for their attitude towards the factory workers.
    Don't compare work ethics of Chinese and Indian workers. If India was a suitable place(good workers pool, better weather, better infrastructure, supporting political climate, etc etc) then all non-Chinese companies manufacturing their products in China for decades would have done the same in India. It is hard to manufacture or do business in India. Apple started manufacturing in India as a back up plan because of the tension between USA and China and possibly access to financially getting better the larger middle class consumers market . That simple.
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  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

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    I am glad I went for a bathroom break during that Mother Nature segment. That was worse ever presentation from Apple anywhere. You don’t screw up the presentation and message to audience because you want to show inclusive. There are ways to do both.
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