On Apple’s earnings call today, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook commented on rumors in recent days that the company had slashed orders for iPhone 5 parts, which suggested lower-than-expected demand for the device. He said those rumors, if you’ll allow...
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A customer inspects mobile devices at a kiosk selling Samsung products in Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India.
A Spotlight Foxconn Is Willing to Share With Samsung
Foxconn doesn’t like to be compared with Samsung. Founder and Chairman Terry Gou has gone out of his way to tell audiences how the world’s biggest assembler of electronics is better and can defeat its South Korean rival on multiple...
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A group of protesters from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) demonstrate outside the Foxconn annual general meeting in Hong Kong.
Apple’s Labor Report Card, Not Yet Released, Already Doomed to Fail
Apple's latest round of inspections at Foxconn and other partners won't make anyone happy. We can predict the conclusion: things are better than some claim, yet more can be done. All sides involved will use this for their own ends.
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Crowds of Chinese Foxconn employees have lunch in a dining hall at Foxconn's Shenzhen plant.
Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn?
So Mike Daisey’s been outed. The things he said he saw, he didn’t. The people he said he spoke to, he didn’t. The discoveries he said he made, he didn’t. He lied. It matters a lot that Mike Daisey lied,...
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Steve Wozniak.
Wozniak Still Backs Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey must be feeling some agony after his one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” was outed for embellishing its supposed first-hand accounts. But Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is still a big fan of the performance,...
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Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
How a Google Search Unraveled Mike Daisey’s Apple-Foxconn Story
Mike Daisey, the monologist behind “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” created a “reality-distortion field” of his own. But it didn’t fool Rob Schmitz. The China bureau chief for American Public Media’s Marketplace publication uncovered that Daisey had...
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Daisey on Apple: ‘I’m Waiting for Them to Actually Get Serious’
Author and monologist Mike Daisey spoke today with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about his view on Apple and Foxconn (“they really are two halves of the same company”) and what he thinks about CEO Tim Cook’s response to recent criticism (“Apple...
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Media Outnumber Apple Protesters as Petition by 250,000 Is Delivered
At Apple’s Grand Central store in New York City today, the protest drew more members of the media than actual protesters. Outnumbered by journalists and even police officers, the group of fewer than 10 protesters showed up this morning to...
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