Apple contractor kills himself
AN APPLE contractor was so terrified of the wrath of his employer that he killed himself when a prototype Iphone went missing.
Sun Danyong, 25, reported an upcoming Iphone prototype missing and it appears that he was so scared of the repercussions that he committed suicide by jumping out of a 12th-floor window.
The Chinese media reports that Sun worked at Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn, based in Shenzhen. He had the job of shipping Iphone prototypes from Foxconn to Apple.
He had ordered 16 prototype phones from Foxconn's assembly line on 9 July but within days he noticed that one of them was missing.
Foxconn employees searched his home in a desperate bid to find the phone before Apple found out. Some Chinese media reports said the apartment search was illegal and quoted former classmates saying that Sun told them he was beaten by his bosses. Nothing was found.
However three days later Sun was dead. Surveillance footage from his apartment showed he had jumped out of a 12th-floor window at 3.30am on 16 July.
Apple and Foxconn are still awaiting the official investigation into Sun's death. Odd for a suicide: normally these are seen as open and shut cases.
Apple insisted that it was "saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee". It stressed it required suppliers to treat all workers with "dignity and respect".
Foxconn has admitted that some of its employees might have used "inappropriate interrogation methods".
Job's Mob has faced many claims that its contractors in China work in sweat shop conditions, although these accusations have always been denied.
Foxconn, located in Longhua, housed 100 low-paid workers per dorm room and banned visits from people outside the plant. Workers did 15-hour shifts to make Apple's overpriced gear.
After it was revealed that contractors were being forced to stand still for hours, Apple released a 10-week investigation which found that Foxconn was complying with the "majority" of Apple's policies. The report, which was regarded as a whitewash, might not have led to any changes at Foxconn. µ
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It seems men are valuated like "Dirt under the Fingernails" in the globalised world,
the "dead per share" should be implemented in the quarterly share reports.
At least if one of the workers commits suicide they are still employed. It is better than suicides because poor economic conditions that depends on government aids.
What a slut country, so pwned by corporations.
1 down, 35000 to go...
Business as usual for Apple, as long as their intellectual property isn't leaked Apple and their share holders couldn't give a damn.
A better company would've fired FOXCON on the spot and issued a public apology and compensation to his family.
If the lives of the people who make them rich aren't respected, then Apple doesn't deserve my business.
Yeah right, dignity and respect... THEY USE SWEATSHOPS! Think differently--Ha.
Like clockwork Nicke writes some doom and gloom articles heading into Apple's earnings (hoping and praying they come true) and after Apple reports, no analysis, no comment on a company that he tracks so closely? If Apple had missed on the #'s what do you suppose Nick's Apple article would have been today?
So yesterday's article is the "Apple tanks in PC market" (hoping that this will be true)... with the subtitle "we told you so" (we meaning Nick, but a plural used to make it sound like conventional wisdom and a widespread prediction). Now that Apple unit sales has GROWN while the rest of the world PC sales has declined... what's the story about that? Oh, there is none, as that would not fit with the "desired" Apple coverage.
It was the same damn thing last quarter - doom and gloom leading into the report and then barely a peep about it when the FACTS actually come out. What's funny is that eventually Nick will be right, and we'll never hear the end of it.
This is a site that tracks technology... they do analysis of the PC industry... they talk about Intel earnings and AMD earnings. Yet no mention of Apple earnings?
Come on INQ, while Nick may not be, you guys are better than this!
Prototype of a new iPhone? Already?
Are they planning to release a new one before next summer?
Oh yeah, too bad about the guy, and blah blah. But who DOES have that prototype? THAT's the real tragedy.
Methinks NF has real Apple issues.
An ex girlfriend Mac-user perhaps? Coitus interrupted by an iPhone? An inadvertent iPod insertion?
Please elucidate, Nick.
Yeah, capitalism at its finest.
Free-trade with countries like this will gradually pull developed nations down to the same level as they struggle to compete. Good-bye pensions, good-bye four-day work week, good-bye extra overtime pay, good-bye unions, good-bye worker rights. Just watch and see it all slowly erode, just as Big Business knew it would. Finally their drool inducing fantasies are coming true as they can become filthy rich overlords of a world full of slaves.