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Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones

Posted by Soulskill on from the piece-of-the-apple-pie dept.

eldavojohn writes "Bloomberg Businessweek has an article of interest resulting from a three-hour interview with Foxconn founder Terry Gou (single page), whose company manufactures 137,000 iPhones a day. The article profiles Gou's rise to Foxconn but also offers some interesting tidbits you might not know. On why he is not opening factories in the United States, Gou frankly states, 'If I can automate in the US and ship to China, cost-wise it can still be competitive. But I worry America has too many lawyers. I don't want to spend time having people sue me every day.' If you're interested in how a modern day Henry Ford thinks, you can read the rest about the man steering the ship of the world's largest producer of electronics components and China's largest exporter. This unprecedented transparency was part of an agreement Gou made with his customers during his delayed response to an increasing number of Foxconn suicides."

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  1. Re:Exploitation for the win! by geekoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe you should take up reading lawsuits instead of regurgitating your bias from your echo chamber.

    twit.

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  2. Re:that's one way to see it, here's another by dreadlord76 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you rather kill them than letting them decide what conditions they would work under. Gotcha.

  3. Re:Exploitation for the win! by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>>Their big problem is not what is happening to the people today..... The problem is that they are mortgaging the future by doing horrible, horrible things to their environment

    Did you really just say Trees and other shit are More important than individuals??? That's dangerous thinking. It's the kind of thinking that led that Green-democrat to attack Discover Channel's building. The Chinese lawmakers are not going to give a shit about poisoning the air, because they don't recognize the right of the Individual to even exist, much less breathe.

    You need to recognize the individual FIRST before you realize the individual has a right to clean air.

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  4. Re:Exploitation for the win! by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    >I'm sick and tired of the rich

    Yeah, I gathered that from your blatherings in the above thread.