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avon b7 said:

Asking users to agree to the terms after having flashed up the licence in the middle of the setup process and via a checkbox, probably wouldn't get very far in the EU if someone legally challenged any of its terms.

gmgravytrain said:

As near as I can tell, Apple isn't the only company Foxconn deals with. Acer, Bell, Cisco, BlackBerry, Google and Microsoft are some of the American customers Foxconn has and there are numerous other companies from all around the world. I simply do not understand why they keep tying in Foxconn to only Apple as though Apple's fortunes are Foxconn's fortunes and vice-versa.  If Apple were Foxconn's only customer then there would be no doubt.

If Apple is responsible for 50% of Foxconn's revenues, there's still the other 50% that could also be dragging down Foxconn's revenues and there's no way of telling for sure where the greatest damage is being done. Foxconn customers, Nokia, BlackBerry and Nintendo could seriously be hurting Foxconn due to poor product sales. It just seems rather lame to always be placing the blame directly on Apple unless Foxconn comes out and says that Apple is the company to blame for major lost revenue.

Soli said:

I hope cabinet is just a stand-in term for an open rack by which their servers connect. The most efficient way to cool a vast number of servers producing a lot of heat isn't to isolate them in cabinets but keep them completely open with the entire room being hermetically sealed so that only cold air filtered through massive HEPA filters is recycled into the room. Even the servers themselves should be barebones without fancy casing outside of the framing to hold the components in place.