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How irresponsible of AI to publish this poorly researched garbage. This article is based on the logical fallacy that because some third-party factories have more than 10% temporary employees that Apple must be "ignor[ing] the issue." That's like saying that because there are murders committed that police ignore murders.  

The article also cites facts that directly contradict that Apple is ignoring the issue. For example, Apple recognized that suppliers were exceeding limits, and then took steps to have its suppliers comply.  And indeed "[s]uppliers made effort to comply."  The fact that some didn't does meant that Apple chose to "ignore" the problem.  

Some of the facts do not support the conclusion because they lack context.  If 84% of new hires at Pegatron were temporary workers, that doesn't mean the 10% limit was exceeded.  The factory may have had 100,000 workers, 95,000 of whom are temporary, and Pegatron may have hired 10 new workers, 9 of whom were temporary. The 10% limit is still met.  

It's also unclear what the link is between temporary employment and strikes/suicides.  The purpose of the law is so employees "get better benefits, and ... legal protections," not prevent suicides or strikes.  Someone may indeed commit suicide because of poor working conditions, but there's nothing here to support that temporary workers commit suicide at greater rates than full time workers. 

As this article discusses, suppliers are getting around the 10% limit by classifying employees as subcontractors, rather than as employees. This article fails to mention that, nor does it discuss how this would impact Apple's efforts to enforce the temporary worker limits.

lkrupp said:

mike1 said:

Darn.

Is battery life the reason why none of the wireless doorbells are HK compatible? Even Arlo's new wireless doorbell cameras does not seem to be. Even after I was told by them that it was.

I don’t think that has anything to do with it. Do manufacturers have to pay a licensing fee to use HomeKit? That might have an effect. That this product uses your existing doorbell power supply is nice.

$99 a year to be a part of the MFi program + either $4 or $8 per device. 

MplsP said:

StrangeDays said:

There's certainly an argument to be made that it's more expensive than one would like. But on the question of not including a wall a charger, I imagine if this is intended for use as a travel charging device that the expectation is you bring the wall charger you normally use with you? That's what I would end up doing with it, anyway.

Except how many people have a spare 30w brick laying around? Since Apple has never included anything more than the paltry 5w cube with iPhones and even the iPad chargers were only 20w I'd bet not many.

Wondering if this silly whining and complaining is going to last as long as when Apple gave floppy discs, Flash, and the microphone jack the boot.

Time to get over it. Whining on forums is not going to bring back chargers. 

chadbag said:

I am wondering why they just don't auto enroll every developer account.   They have all the data.  

Because you have to disclose every developer account that you own, and all accounts are taken into consideration.  Apple has no idea who ultimately owns and controls a developer account since they could be set up under different legal entities.  For example, Epic controls several accounts.  

razorpit said:

Only problem is the company will pull all the people that made the same bad governmental decisions in CA to TX. Eventually Texas will eventually end up ruined like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

Texas is a shithole, and no one wants to live there, which is precisely why housing is so cheap. When it becomes more like California it will be because people want to live there and drive up prices, not because of "bad governmental decisions."