:read: It takes 141 steps to make an iPhone, and the devices are essentially all handmadeIt takes five days and 325 hands to make a single iPadFoxconn produces 300k iPad camera modules per dayFoxconn workers pay for their own food - about $.70 per meal, and work 12 hour shiftsWorkers who live in the dorms sleep six to eight a room, and pay $17.50 a month to do soWorkers make $1.78 an hourNew employees at Foxconn undergo three days of training and "team building" exercises before they beginThe FLA (which Apple brought in to audit Foxconn) is interested in whether or not workers will look up at visitors in a factory - if they'll be "willing to look at curiosities"Apple paid $250,000 to join the FLA, and is paying for its auditLouis Woo, when asked if he would accept Apple demanding double pay for employees replied "Why not?"[/list]
During the show Weir also spoke with Fair Labor Association president Auret van Heerden, following his inspection of the factory. Heerden said that Foxconn's facilities are ‘first class’ and ‘way above the norm'.
Apple is the first technology company to join the FLA. The iPhone-maker paid $250,000 to join, according to Nightline’s report.
Full report here
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/1255584/apples_iphone_and_ipad_handmade_by_178_an_hour_workers_says_nightline.html
Do you not kow that being able to have an SD Slot or a USB slot would give lots of extra storage and flexibility then and so posibly avoid paying rip off prices for 32 and 64 g models?
Your signature is 'Man on a budget'. Don't make me laugh :rofl:
If Apple are anything...they are not Mugs.
"You say Apple is ripping people off? Would you buy from someone you felt that was ripping you off? Then its simple don't buy one.
I would buy one if i had the cash and i wouldn't feel ripped off".
So no one has the right to have a go at a company then...even if one thinks the company is ripping people off?
I don't buy that. :shame:
When you can afford to buy a new I Pad though, please spare a thought for the workers being paid ONE DOLLER 78 CENTS an hour while living in a Dormatory sleeping six to eight people. :shame:
:cheers: