So what? Name one consumer electronic firm that doesn’t use China for such purposes. YOU are ignoring the fact that it is NOT just China that manufactures Apple products. Apple IPhone 11s are also manufactured in VietNam, India, Indonesia, and Brazil, as well as China. Apple Macs are manufactured and assembled in China, Ireland, and the United States. EVEN IN ELK GROVE, CALIFORNIA! Which, given your Freepname, you should be familiar with, ElkGroveDan.
Major Apple assembly plants are under construction in the USA in Wisconsin and Austin, Texas, right now. Parts and sub-assemblies of all Apple products are manufactured in over 90 countries around the world, including major parts in the USA.
Your assumption that the final assembly of some of those components in China is made by what YOU refer to as SLAVE LABOR is false. They are hired independently and can leave at will. They are not forced to work. Overtime is optional. This slave labor in China is a myth left over from the full communist period of the past, promulgated by propaganda. China has embraced a Capitalist economy, with a dictatorial government. Yes, the labor costs are low in China, but right now the costs are lower in many other parts of the world, and businesses are taking their manufacturing from China to those lower cost countries. It’s the nature of business.
FoxConn does assembly work for over 600 of the name brand Consumer Electronic firms in the world, not just Apple. Your claims just don’t hold water.
The workers at FoxConn are middle class in China, when compared to the overall cost of living. . . Not SLAVE LABOR. Why else do workers queue up by the thousands to apply for the available jobs when they become open? They pay better than normal factory work. They certainly pay better than shop work. They can afford to rent apartments, some own cars, have families.
The DENSE one here is you. Apple makes headlines like the one in the WSJ. It is not alone, but it WAS the last US company to take it’s manufacturing to China, and the first to bring it back, manufacturing its MacPro computer line in Austin, Texas and some iMacs in Elk Grove, California.
But YOU don’t let facts get in the way of your ignorant opinions, do you? YOU WANT to believe that China is a country of slaves. Ignore the facts.
Finally, here is a list of the top 75 contractors (out of over 600) who have their electronic products assembled or manufactured by FoxConn in China. . .
SO QUIT BEING A HYPOCRITE WITH YOUR SELECTIVE CRITICISM!
My original point has nothing to do with the products made elsewhere. My original comment was a sarcastic reference to Apple's reliance on communist; i.e SLAVE labor.
The Chinese slaves are so proud.
You can split hairs all you want. Apple could be making Eskimo whale spears in Greenland. It wouldn't change the fact that a huge number of their iphones have been and continue to be assembled by the oppressed victims of Communism in China.
This slave labor in China is a myth left over from the full communist period of the past, promulgated by propaganda.
If you don't believe that life under Communism is slavery then you are the one swallowing propaganda and you probably don't belong on FreeRepublic.