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Workers riot at Wistron iPhone plant in India over shorted pay
I think the consensus is that this is part of Apple’s supply chain and even though they are not in charge of auditing how a supplier pays its workers, this kind of story hurts the brand. Apple does have specific requirements in their agreements with their suppliers that gives them the right to audit the supplier’s employees to find out if they are treated fairly. If not, they can let the supplier know that they need to correct the behavior or end up losing business.Beats said:Goodness I thought this place had the smartest posters. This is sounding almost as bad as MacRumors.
1. This is NOT Apple. So no, Tim Cook did not cut these people's pay nor is Apple in any control of what happens here. This does not reflect Apple's human rights and none of these people are Apple employees.
2. Apple cannot snap their fingers and materialize a new 3rd party manufacturer out of thin air, with property and employees and all.
3. Apple should ONLY be concerned about employees striking as it slows down production. THIS is what we should be concerned about as Apple contracted this company to fulfill a purpose and this company not paying employees fairly gets in the way of this purpose.
Again this IS NOT APPLE!!! Apple has a contract in place and the fact management is failing at this contract gives Apple the right to sue the sh** out of them. I'm sure the contract has quotas in place and punishment if these company rips Apple off. This is basic business practice here.tzeshan said:
Apple was forced to do so. A few years ago Foxconn employees jumped to death. The responsibility is on Apple suppliers. Human rights hypocrites stretch everything to suit their agenda.lkrupp said:
I agree. Apple should tone down the virtue signaling about human rights, privacy and security. It makes them look very hypocritical at best. While Macs and iOS devices may be somewhat more secure than the competition they are not in any way bulletproof, as has been demonstrated time and again when security researchers find flaws. And in terms of humanistic reputation Apple is doing business with some truly nasty actors, both primary and secondary. Think about mining in Africa.Alger said:Welcome to India. Supposed democracy where 98% of the population are treated like human garbage, due to barbaric, medieval caste system, mindless religious zealotry and grotesque overpopulation. If Apple don't want to see their humanistic reputation (what's left of it after almost selling their soul to capture Chinese market) sullied even further, they had better tighten their grip and sense of responsibility over their proxies there.
What iKnockoff morons failed to realize is that the employees that jumped to their death WERE NOT employees of Apple and most were not even working on Apple products. Most were from the XBox division. No one gave a sh*t except Apple who installed nets to reduce suicides. Every state in the U.S. has a higher suicide rate than Foxconn. Every University in the United States has a higher suicide rate than Foxconn. The irony when iKnockoff morons blame Apple for suicides(that they had no hand in) and yet don't care about what's going on in their own back yard.red oak said:- The employees who caused damage should be immediately identified, fired, and banned from ever working at Wistron again
- Individual criminal charges should be filed
And let the managers go? This sounds like some right-wing nut nonsense.
I FULLY support a dog biting it's owner after being abused for too long and I don't support the owner euthanizing the dog because he's become violent.This has been in place ever since the Foxconn suicide incidents. Even though Apple is not responsible, they have acted to protect their image when it looks like a supplier of theirs are abusing their workers to make more money.
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Italy fines Apple 10M euro over water resistance marketing
I always thought advertising “water resistance” was a bad idea. Since there is nothing to back it up in the warranty, why advertise that you have made changes to the device to protect it from water?The IP designation is terrible and should be scrapped and re-done in a way that average consumers can understand that unless your device can get submerged in water that has a current, you should never get it wet.This is one of the best explanations of how the IP ratings work and more importantly how they don’t stack the higher the IP rating.
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Windows on Apple Silicon is up to Microsoft, says Craig Federighi
All of this can be put on the shoulders of Intel. They are the ones for the past 30 years have not worked on what’s next after x86.I remember in the 90s when Microsoft did port Windows NT to run on PPC, but nobody did anything with it. Motorola and IBM had no interest in trying to compete with Intel.
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Airbnb hires Jony Ive to design next-gen products and services
Tesla had too big of a heart and got screwed by Edison and Westinghouse. He didn’t have anyone to guide him except Samuel Clemens.GeorgeBMac said:SpamSandwich said:Ive was the one who tended to get the credit, but Jobs was the one making all the decisions on design. Jony would follow directions to an excruciating degree, which is what Steve loved about him. If he wants to waste his time on Airbnb trash, good riddance.Like most eccentric geniuses, Ive needed guidance, direction and some guard rails to keep him and his designs in line.It is unfortunate that, after losing Steve, those things were taken away and / or watered down leaving him to run rampant.The result was a growing imbalance of slick design over functionality.I put the failure of that relationship more on Apple than on Ive because Ive never changed. Apple did. But, on the other hand, the result that world witnessed is common when eccentric geniuses lose their guides and mentors -- particularly when they are made into a god and put on pedestal. The rise and fall of Nikola Tesla is another great example of a superb genius running wild without guidance or restraint.Tesla took a lot of his inventions to the grave, like his fluorescent lamp that could be powered by touching it and his famous box which contained a flaming ball that you could hold and put on your body without burning yourself or setting fire to your clothes and hair. I don’t know if those were real or just stories, but a lot of people who knew Tesla confirmed seeing those inventions.
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Apple's T2 chip has an unfixable vulnerability that could allow root access
I hate that chip, but it theory I’m not sure that this issue is more serious than someone trying to pick a lock on a security door that is protecting another locked door. Sure it’s an issue in theory, but practically it’s fluff for thriller movies. The odds of someone stealing your portable to hack into it to get your files is pretty low, at least here in the US it is. The thief wants to sell your computer quickly and will hope you don’t have activation lock or firmware lock on. If you do, they might be able to sell it to an idiot who doesn’t check those things before buying it. Those are people who don’t believe that if things are too good to be true, they probably aren’t.Getting your data is a lot easier by hacking online retailers or physical stores with crappy network security.Thieves will only work real hard to get your stuff if there is a big money payoff. Otherwise credit card fraud is easier and more abundant.
