doesn't care that people are dying in slave labour conditions for his phone.
LOL.


cunt.
(waxdart hello., Wed 21 Jul 2010, 17:03, 1 reply)

Oh please
*IF* long standing Chinese manufacturer Foxconn (you may well find that they make things like the SATA cables in your PC or even various parts of computers from 1987 from Commodore) are working in slave labour conditions (proof please?) Apple are at least investigating it.

How do you know that *your* phone isn't made by overworked people in China? Your computer motherboard and especially its connectors and cables? Every other part of the computer? Your clothes? Your TV? Your furniture?
(Cloudane, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 17:41, closed)

Given that Foxconn also build for Nokia and Motorola (for starters)...
...it's quite likely that Apple are the good guys in this.

They just need to do some more rigorous prototype and pre-prod testing, that's all. Oh, and sack their PR people for being dipshits and damaging the brand and costing the company far more than a simple product recall or issuing the bumpers for free would have done.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 18:09, closed)

I would agree...
...that the "PR department" aka Steve Jobs needs to - well, shut up at least, since he can't easily be fired. It's his snippy and arrogant emails that are damaging their reputation IMO, and it's him who's been saying silly things like "don't hold it that way".

Which I think summarises why it doesn't bother me too much. Yes Jobs is a jerk (at least the thin version, I'm sure he used to be a decent chap) but he's just one person in the company and really like most CEOs, not a particularly important one beyond the actual title and position. They'll sort it out 'properly' eventually - by September by the sounds of it - and I'm sure they'll swap the units if people complain by then. I'll get it changed myself if it ever becomes an issue. Just take what Steve says with a pinch of salt.
(Cloudane, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 18:27, closed)