If not to buy Apple, what’s the substitute – Samsung? Don’t you know that Samsung’s products are from its OEM factory in Tianjin? Samsung workers’ income and benefits are even worse than those at Foxconn. If not to buy iPad – (do you think) I will buy Android Pad? Have you ever been to the OEM factories for Lenovo and ASUS? Quanta, Compaq … factories of other companies are all worse than those for Apple. Not to buy iPod – (do you think) I will buy Aigo, Meizu? Do you know that Aigo’s Shenzhen factory will not pay their workers until the 19th of the second month? If you were to quit, fine, I’m sorry, your salary will be withdrawn. Foxconn never dares to do such things. First, their profit margin is higher than peers as they manufacture for Apple. Second, at least those foreign devils will regularly audit factories. Domestic brands will never care if workers live or die. I am not speaking for Foxconn. I am just speaking as an insider of
this industry, and telling you some disturbing truth.
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None of this explains why, given their profit margins, they can't pay their workers more. The point of a boycott isn't to put Apple out of business, but to apply pressure for them to improve worker conditions at Foxconn's plant and elsewhere. Anyway, some tablets by companies like Fujitsu and Sharp are manufactured in Japan, where conditions are much better. The good news is China's labor rates are rising and are higher than most poor Asian nations at this point.