On weekend mornings, I have a routine. I wake up, shuffle down my street to pick up an everything bagel with butter, and stop at my favorite coffee shop for a caffeine fix. It’s one of those hip places Louis C.K. jokes about — …
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Should Americans Care About Apple’s iPhone Factory Conditions?
A new report details grim working conditions in the factories that produce Apple’s popular iPhone and iPad devices, and raises questions about the effectiveness of Apple’s supplier code of conduct, which sets standards for labor …
Latest iPhone 5 Rumors Reportedly Come Straight from Foxconn Worker
9to5Mac is reporting that “a reliable source at Foxconn in China” has revealed details about Apple’s next iPhone – namely that it’s “currently being geared up for production,” according to the blog.
As for the reliability of …
Apple Reveals List of Suppliers for the First Time
Apple just did something unprecedented: It released the names of all 150+ of its suppliers after several news stories — including a damning report from Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life — painted an unflattering …
‘This American Life’ Revives Debate over Apple Manufacturer Foxconn’s Labor Practices
In the beginning of the latest episode of This American Life, Ira Glass asks Siri on his iPhone 4S “Where were you manufactured?”
Its reply is telling: “I’m not allowed to say.” Not “I don’t know,” but “I’m …
How Foxconn’s Million-Machine ‘Robot Kingdom’ Will Change the Face of Manufacturing
Foxconn, pressured by the stresses of rising labor costs and negative media attention over employee suicides, could be reshaping the landscape of manufacturing forever. How?
According to Focus Taiwan, the company recently …
Report: They’ve Started Building the iPhone 5
Happy post-Labor-Day, and welcome back to another episode of “some sources say” starring Apple’s so-called iPhone 5. For today’s show, we’ll cite “a Chinese source” who apparently can’t keep it zipped, because he or she’s claiming the next iPhone is actually in production, in keeping with (the most recent) rumors that the iPhone 5 would …
Foxconn: Your Next iPad May Be Assembled by a Robot
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing contractor that often produces Apple’s newfangled iDevices, has decided that they’re going to up the ante, slowly replacing factory workers with robots.
Within the next three years, Foxconn plans to include 1 million robots in its workforce while phasing out some of its human workers. Currently, …
Rumor: New MacBook Airs in July, iPhone 6 in 2012, 15m iPhone 5s in First Batch
I’m ready for my upgrade, by which I mean from a well-worn early 2010 13-inch MacBook Pro to a shiny new Thunderbolt-equipped 11.6-inch MacBook Air—if Apple does right by me spec-wise with its imminent MacBook Air refresh, anyway. The latest rumors (per DigiTimes) don’t tell us much about what to expect from Cupertino’s ultraportable …
‘Combustible Dust’ Plant Explosion May Cost Apple 500,000 iPads
It looks like dust—that’s right, dust—was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Chinese factory that supplies Apple iPads. The blast, which happened last Friday (pictured above) killed three workers and injured 15 others.
Not just any dust, say Chinese investigators, but something called “combustible dust.” Yep, I had to look …
Deadly Explosion at iPad Production Plant in China
An explosion at a Foxconn plant in Chengdu, China has killed two people and injured 16 others, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Chengdu plant is one of two facilities owned by Foxconn that produces iPads for Apple.
The explosion happened at around 7:00 Friday night in a "polishing plant" thought to be "at the end of the production
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