It annoys me, as an Apple customer, that company’s such as Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, HP, etc. still give their custom to a company with little or no regard to employee safety.

Surely they can find other suppliers? Are we to believe Foxconn have no rivals who would be willing to give almost as favourable pricing to win such big names from their competitor. Profit margins might take a minor hit, but when you think of the premium prices Microsoft and Apple charge for their respective products, they could easily absorb the difference. Most likely they’d recoup it from the end users anyway.

Even from a purely cynical point of view, with mud gets thrown at Foxconn, some of it inevitably sticks to their customers by way of association and no business truly enjoys negative press (with perhaps the exception of Ryanair). Maybe its time to point fingers and examine why Foxconn is so powerful.

For all these companies spout about the benefits they provide, their ethical business and giving back to the communities, they could do more for the people of Chengdu by threatening to drop Foxconn altogether.

I’ve visited a Foxconn factory in China before…..pure slavery

I love to think that someday all products would be produced ethically but lets face it if it involves share-holders taking a hit it won’t happen, also very few people who buy these products (including me!) truly care if these workers endure such hardship for a shiney iPhone 4 or iPad 2. Exposes the length of our hipocracy that when you think, all of us commenting on this articale have a computer or an iPhone that was probably made by these unfortunate people.

Read Adam Smith. This is invisible hand of the market. Want cheap gadgets? Accept cheap labour.

Tbh, the workers are there to make money, if they don’t like it they can leave. But while Foxconn does run cheap labor, you have to blame the government for allowing it to happen.

They were working on the IED App….