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If I lived in China I would patronize the (allegedly) fake Apple stores. You can get a better deal these plus they sell ye ol pirated Windows7 DVDs for $2 that you can slap on your new Apple computer for dual boot. In those “fake” Apple stores they probably sell Apple laptops that are made on the real Chinese assembly lines but made during a ghost shift after normal factory hours. This is the only way the workers can survive given the slave wages Apple/FoxComm pays them

Dennis, you are posting propaganda falsehoods again. There ARE NO "after normal factory hours" you so blithely just invented. Foxconn runs the Apple assembly lines 24/7... because Apple is selling every single product they can currently make on their own. For the top selling Apple products, there simply is NO EXCESS PRODUCTION CAPACITY TO BE HAD! FoxConn cannot afford to have an assembly line to be idle.

In addition, Dennis, APPLE is in charge of the inventory purchasing and delivery, not FoxConn and given Apple's world class expertise in "just in time" inventory control and delivery techniques—which Apple pioneered—any discrepancy in Apple product parts diverted to "gray market" assembly would stick out like a sore thumb hit with a 16 pound sledge hammer. Apple would certainly notice.

As for your "slave wages" mantra you keep asserting, starting three years ago at Apple's insistence the FoxConn Apple Assembly line workers were given a raise that elevated their pay to three times the prevailing Chinese assembly factory industry wages. . . when the included room and board in FoxConn company cities are factored in. FoxConn workers who work on other assembly lines for other companies are not so handsomely paid. It is not the way I would want to live but it is the facts. Apple has staff stationed in China to monitor the pay, working and living conditions, age, and hours of the FoxConn employees who work on Apple products. Are they paid the wages they would be paid in the United States? No, they are not... but they are paid far better then their compatriots in China, in the same industry.So your accusations are again, wrong.

But, you SHOULD know this because you've been TOLD this, time and time again. . . with links to the evidence! So why do you keep repeating the lies? Dennis, it has to be deliberate.

Before you bring it up, the so called suicide problem at FoxConn is a trumped up FUD issue long since thoroughly debunked. The suicide rate at the FoxConn employees is 75% LESS than the national suicide rate of same age demographic! Quit making up your "non-factoids" and posting them as if you know something.

It is not the way I would want to live but it is the facts.

Years ago my boss was assigned to work in China dealing with Chinese engineers. And he was flabbergasted at the "pay," if you can call it that, his counterparts received for their work.
In conversation with them he mentioned that his wife worked, and they asked him how she got to work. He said he was embarassed to tell them that not only did he have a car but his wife did too - it was just too radically outside the realm of their experience. So he lied and said that she rode the bus.

I will agree on one thing...... FoxComm problems are blown way out of proportion. All Chinese factories run “ghost shifts” to pull in extra money...if the item is real hot. Why should Apple be immune? Jobs is not bulletproof nor is Apple. Where is your link that there are not “ghost runs” of iPads for example?