Posted on 10/16/2019 2:26:22 PM PDT by dennisw
One more thing. I think at last count, something like seven cinematic motion picture that were released nation wide, at least one of which won an Oscar, were entirely shot using iPhones, and several of those had their post production work, including editing, partially done on the iPhone and completed on iPads.
I know of at least twenty glossy magazine covers, including five for Time, and three for National Geographic, one for Glamor, plus at least four complete photo spreads for National Geographic magazine (one of those done in Africa after the photographer’s pro equipment was impounded by customs), and one for Glamor, that were completely done using iPhone cameras by professional photographers.
I have an iPhone and an ipad. I run a paperless company from them. I tried an ipad Pro but it was just too big for me. Every document, etc. that I need to run our company is on them. Easy peasy.
A person can buy devices for such use at under $100. Here we are talking about paying for a label, which a lot of people prefer to do.
Again, that’s fine, not my bucks. I’m just not an extravagant guy and buying generic has always worked for me. If the car that gets me from here to there is a Rolls Royce or a Volkwagen, I get there on time either way.
I do not see ant nets draping our factories here in the USA.
I guess that is why Apple has their products made in China as they care about the Chinese jumping off the factory roof.
Here they would just go splat!
I assure you that if any company in the USA had 750,000 employees (and retirees), they’d have more than 18 employees in a year and a half at 27 plants spread over an entire country, the number which FoxConn experienced during the period which lead to what YOU are complaining about, who had committed suicide. The overall suicide rate in the USA is approximately 12 per 100,000 population per year, which would most likely be experienced by any company in the USA. As an example, the suicide rate at US Ivy League Universities is 11 per 100,000 students (the age cohorts in those Universities is similar to the employees at FoxConn, 18 to 32).
If a company in the US had 750,000 employees (plus retirees because the US overall rate is for all age cohorts), as FoxConn did in 2010, it is likely they’d have approximately 90 (12 X 7.5) suicides among those employees and retirees each year. FoxConn’s Suicide rate during the PEAK of that 2010 spate of suicides was just 1 to 0.75 per 100,000 workers in an environment where the overall suicide rate in China is over 20 per 100,000. (The suicide rate changed over the 18 month period due to the growth in the average number of employees at FoxConn during that period from 750,000 to 1.5 million.)
An independent, outside panel of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists formed to investigate this spate of suicides at FoxConn found that NONE of the suicides were caused by working conditions but were caused by the normal human reasons people kill themselves: love triangles, mental illness, loss of reputation, financial gain for their families, and long-term illness.
From 2012 through 2018, the number of suicides among FoxConn’s employees 1.5 million employees, has been ZERO. So you really do not know what you are talking about, while I have been posting easily checked, confirmable facts to counter your false myths. . . And you are repeatedly making a fool of yourself.
I know that you will ignore all of this and post your lies again, in another thread, but I post this for those who read your myths. You have your mind made up and NOTHING will change your determination to post your false narrative. So go right ahead. I will just be there to again post the truth.
You likely can, if they are a used Apple iPhone, but not as secure as a newer iPhone.
You really do not know what advantages an iPhone gives you if you think that is true. The iPhone ecosystem is what makes it so productive, not just being a portable computer. I can start working on a document on my iPhone and continue seamlessly on my iPad, iMac, or MacPro, with no losses. Everything is connected. That is NOT easy to do with anything else. . . it requires jumping through hoops and coordinating other apps to get it to sorta work. With Apple it just works seamlessly. It’s the entire package of the ecosystem. It’s not a collection of disparate parts that YOU have to make work. None of us are “paying for a label,” we are paying for not having to work on our devices but being able to work on our work. That is what people who don’t use Apple products FAIL TO GRASP.
IBM does. They switched from the disparate non-matched environment to an all Apple environment for their 400,000 employee company and are saving $46 million in IT costs per year, plus are seeing a huge increase in per employee productivity. . . because of what I just described to you.
I read somewhere (maybe here) that FoxConn will install trampoline’s.
“I can start working on a document on my iPhone and continue seamlessly on my iPad, iMac, or MacPro, with no losses.”
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Well, except for all the bucks a guy’s gotta lose buying all those compatible I-things to do such a thing. You can create and edit documents on Android, Windows and Linux, going from device to device. You’re not locked into one OS unless you choose to be. But I understand there are people who are happy being so, while others may prefer more flexibility and options. Shrug.
But when we’re talking about smart phones, the overwhelming usage is watching videos, posting selfies on social media and texting BFFs.
>If I owned an IPhone or Ipad I would see an independent repair shop >like this woman has
iPhone repairs can be done at home. I have’ replaced screens, ear phones, batteries, etc on phones for family members. The tear down videos and parts are readily available.
But, dealing with the 1.2mm screws is a real pain and the initial screen pull from the body can be tough.
Ironically, I have a more difficult time finding parts for my Android.
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