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Apple To Help Foxconn Improve Factories
An anonymous reader writes "In a welcome move, Apple has agreed to help share initial costs with Foxconn in improving the factories being used to manufacture iDevices. From the article: 'Foxconn chief Terry Gou did not give a figure for the costs, but the group has been spending heavily to fight a perception its vast plants in China are sweatshops with poor conditions for its million-strong labor force. It regards the criticism as unfair. "We've discovered that this (improving factory conditions) is not a cost. It is a competitive strength," Gou told reporters on Thursday after the ground-breaking ceremony for a new China headquarters in Shanghai. "I believe Apple sees this as a competitive strength along with us, and so we will split the initial costs."'"
Do honestly think Apple would be doing this if they didn't think it would increase their profit margin in the medium to long term at least?
Yes, some companies care about conditions of the workforce.
It wouldn't impact profits if Apple did not do this. They could easily have ignored the complaints and let it blow over, and continued to do the same thing to help chinese workers that the makers of whatever devices you prefer to use do (i.e. nothing).
The only return on Apple for this is felling slightly better about themselves.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I just wonder what the Apple haters ...
"Haters"
WTF is a 'hater'?
Oh wait I know - one who criticizes something that another is irrationally attached to. Like Apple fanbois who need to grow up and realize that Apple is just another multinational corporation that will exploit labor.
Anyone who uses the term "hater" is a fucking moron.
Ergo - danaris is a fucking moron.