Comments on: That iPhone Worker Suicide Story

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:11 +0000

commence operation “sweep it under the rug”.

By: Kayza Kleinman

Kayza Kleinman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:52:20 +0000

I’m not so sure that Foxconn is being so honest. It’s a good bet that this is an attempt to spin this away from the criminal investigation that is going on.

So, this company makes stuff for other companies, but it’s an Apple product that happens to be involved. Remember, Apple is known to be fanatic about keeping things secret. Which leads to the not unreasonable assumption that at least part of the reason for the company’s mistakes here were a result of their concern over Apple’s response. Now, I don’t know if that is actually what happened, and I doubt we will until the investigtion is done (if even then), but it certainly is not an outlandish idea.

By: Vox

Vox — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:16:28 +0000

The one thing that I’ve noticed on every blog out there talking about this story, is that it seems to be Apple’s fault in some way…at minimum, for doing business with a company that has the kind of “managerial deficiencies” that lead to this.

What nobody seems to realize is that Foxconn builds stuff for a hell of a lot more companies, including bigger companies than Apple, like Dell and Nokia, so…why isn’t anybody telling them to investigate too?

I guess it’s just because it’s fun to poke the cool kids on the block, uh?

By: David Worthington

David Worthington — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:13:26 +0000

I hate to be a cynic, but my eyebrows went up when I first heard this story. Human rights violations cannot be condoned (if that is the case).