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Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self
tlhIngan writes "Physical intimidation of a Foxconn employee, 25 year-old Sun Danyong, and a possibly-illegal search of his house may have led to suicide after an iPhone prototype in his possession was lost. Foxconn is Apple's long-time manufacturing partner for the iPhone. Entrusted with 16 iPhone prototypes, Danyong discovered that one was missing and searched the factory for it. When it didn't turn up, he reported the incident to his boss, who ordered his apartment searched. There are reports of physical intimidation by Foxconn security personnel. This ended tragically on Thursday at 3 AM, when Danyong jumped from his apartment building to his death." VentureBeat notes that "Apple exerts immense pressure on its business partners [to] help it maintain secrecy." An Apple spokesperson said this to CNet: "We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee, and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death. We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."
Yet somehow, Dell, HP and other companies that do their manafacturing in China, with Foxconn even, have managed to get by for a decade or more without any of their workers dying in suspicious circumstances.
Where do you get that from? Could it be that just nobody gives a toss if someone working for Dell or HP tops himself? Given the statistics quoted earlier, it would be very, very unlikely if nobody working for these companies in China had ever committed suicide.
And that's the point, if it was any other company you could brush it off as a random event. But Apple is notorious for its extreme attitude towards security, and if you think that wasn't the major contributing factor in all this, I have a bridge to sell you.
Apple isn't notorious for its "extreme attitude toward security". How many leaked news of HP or Dell products have you seen recently? I haven't seen any. Now what is the difference? Is the difference that nobody cares whether there is anything new coming from Dell or HP? Or are these two companies guarding their secrets in a much more extreme way than Apple? I suspect the latter, after all, they both build really exciting Windows-based computers that all the geeks love and not shiny toys like Apple does.
Somehow I think you bought a bridge and now you want to get rid of it.
If you're serious, maybe it has something to do with being forced to have ONE child, if any at all...
WTF are you talking about? It's China that has that one-child policy, not Lithuania.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
What are those many reasons?
Selfish? I dunno...I think the instinct towards self preservation is there for a reason.
I can see with the example of someone dying of cancer in horrible pain, that self termination would be a viable option, but, short of that, I cannot think of a person, thing or movement that would be worth my willingly giving my life for...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Huh, interesting... makes you wonder if playing Russian roulette counts as suicide...
No, it counts as "Accident while cleaning the gun".
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck