Plot thickens in the case of Apple worker 'suicide'

is deeply regrettable, this isn't news. This is just a re-hash of what Nick "reported" yesterday. We still don't know if he jumped or was pushed. If the former (which is most likely) then he's far from the first young man to commit suicide due to pressures of work. If the latter then we don't know who is responsible and what the reasons were (it could, for example, be a case of industrial espionage with the buyers covering their tracks).
So, other than trying to distract attention from the fact that he was totally wrong about Apple's quarter end results, what exactly was Nick's point?

Where bits of tech can be more important than human lives ...

Apple sucks and sooner or later all of you losers that buy their crap will realize it too

Since, they have worried about reduction ordering from apple. They did not want losing more orders and want to be trusted again by their customers. This fault could not be tolerance and this man must be responsible for this case.

Love the line where it says that the story is being dismissed as a ploy by a Microsoftloving media. How Palinesque.

With the prices that Apple charges, it could produce all of its products in the US, but that would cut into their profits, and they would have to pay people a living wage. Greed would not allow that. Who wants to create jobs for the American suckers that have been loyal to your brand from the time the company was just starting out? Oh, Apple, you are just too cool!

I would like to thank Apple for showing truly why America is the mess it is today....

"Jobs' Mob has used the company to manufacture all of its Ipods and all Iphone models"

ALL? Not a single one is built here? Wow... good thing, would not want to support the people buying it...

Good thing to... that way China can rise out of "poverty" while we slip into it...

Wouldn't want those chinease to go hungry or homeless... we so rich and all...

How many houses are in foreclosure again?

Apple is a U.S. company, yes? How long has it been since assaulting an employee is an acceptable method of management? And why are people overlooking that part of this issue in favor of arguing for or against Apple Ipods? It is amazing that people think this article is interesting JUST BECAUSE it hints to a new version of technology that is either good or bad from their standpoint. What has happened to our humanitarian ideology that we lay it aside in favor of debating issues of greed?

There's an awful lot of whining going on. It's news that a lot of what we buy comes from China? Any of you whiners ever bought something at Walmart (walmart has done more to drive business overseas than anyone)? You all contribute to the problem. There isn't one of you who doesn't own a boatload of chinese products. If you don't like the situation then stop buying imports. Sure it'll be tough for a while but eventually US companies will get the message. Oh yeah, and be prepared to spend 20-50% more for the same items manufactured here...no whining about that either.

...for cheap jibes. A man died. Just think what his poor mother and father must feel.

The only point worth making is not to invest your self worth in the status afforded by commercial enterprises to the extent that you are willing to die or kill for their sake.

Commerce knows no loyalty, products do not make friends. I wonder if this poor guy was the patsy for a plot involving industrial espionage, or did the factory foreman just jot down the wrong digit on the work sheet?

Either way its not worth losing a life.

So news that Apple's products are covered in Chinese blood is less important than the fact it got moderate second quarter results? You Apple fanboys have got a sick sense of priorities.

The irony here is that people here and elsewhere are already chiming in about foul play, but other than the illegal search of employees apartment, we have no idea what happened and probably never will. But this is CHINA folks, not the US or the UK. Do YOU trust the Chinese authorities? People seem to forget that China is a communist country and that all kinds of human right violations happen there. But the biggest and most unforgivable irony is that capitalist society overlooks the human rights violations in order to make a quick buck off cheap unregulated labor. Virtually EVERYTHING today is made in China, folks. If you don't like it now, then you should have been complaining when Reagan and the Bushites made outsourcing and globalization of the market place the latest fad. Now we are reaping what we have sown. Today its virtually impossible for business to stay competitive to without outsourcing. Ironically, Apple hires more US workers than most technology companies. The worst tech company for outsourcing? Well Microsoft is by far one of the worst. In fact, Business week ranked them in the top 5 companies for utilizing h1b workers. Apple should manufacture its products here in the US---there's no question. But if you want to complain about companies that want to legislate even more outsourcing, then one of the first companies you should be boycotting is Microsoft. Microsoft has repeatedly and deliberately lied to Congress about the availability of tech workers in the US and about the wages its pays it h1b employees. Yet we continue to buy Microsoft products and look the other way.

And as Walter Cronkite would say--that's the way it is.

It's the only right thing to do. Apple seduces us into buying very expensive unnecessary toys. Yet, pays workers nearly nothing to make them, then kills them off for sport.

I'm selling my IPhone 3Gs and will be done with Apple. If more people boycott Job's Toys, only then will he see the light by stop being a capitalistic monster and do something humanitarian for a change.

I'm not sure China could be described as a communist country these days. It has more in common with the South American capitalist dictatorships popular with Maggie and Reagan in 80s.

Um... are you forgetting that it was under Clinton that China was made a perferred trade partner?

After all it was the Democrats taht accepeted several million dollars from the Chinese government to get Clinton Elected. They ended up having to pay all that back as it is illegal to accept funds from a foriegn country.

All companies in the US are guilty of this in one way or another. They all play the game over there so they can make the most proffit off each device made. And yet we require foriegn companies to have US plants and hire US workers to make things here.

What a joke.

how the Apple haters here (president and chief cheerleader Mr N Farrell) can distort the facts and attempt to twist all counter opinion.
1) "Apple products covered in Chinese blood"? So far we've got *ONE* case that we don't know the full facts of, for ONE Chinese contractor (who make systems for DELL, HP, Sony, Nintendo, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola and Amazon - I assume these are all covered in blood and people should stop buying from them immediately also?) which Apple is moving away from anyway. Pointing out that Mr Farrell repeatedly attacks Apple, ignoring Foxconn's other clients or any positive news, and refuses to admit any mistakes of his own is somehow responsible or condoning of the death is beyond stupidity.
2) "Apple is a U.S. company, yes? How long has it been since assaulting an employee is an acceptable method of management?" You HONESTLY think that Apple sent their own hit squad over, or that they in any way condoned what happened? At worst this is about the behavior of a contracted company, not Apple. IF Foxconn is shown to have done wrong and Apple doesn't punish them in some way THEN you can complain.
3) "With the prices that Apple charges, it could produce all of its products in the US" A company in the US (and most of the world) has a legal responsibility to provide best returns for it's shareholders. If they DIDN'T contract out the manufacturing you can bet that some idiot would sue them for loss of value, and given the American legal system probably win.

(advance apology to Castle Rock Entertainment - )

Son, we live in a world that has (iPhones) and those (iPhones) need to be guarded by (corporate thugs). Who's gonna do it? You? You, (Mr. I want my iPhone)? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for (Sun Danyong) and curse (Foxconn); you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that (Sun Danyong's) death, while tragic, probably saved (Apple) and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves (western capitalism).

You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about (on) parties (lines) you want me (in Foxconn), you need me (in Foxconn). We use words like (patents), (trade secrets), (copyrights). We use them as the backbone of a life trying to defend (our monopoly). You use them as a punchline.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who (surfs the internet) and (make calls using) the very (iPhone) I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just (pay up and) said "thank you," and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a (baseball bat) and (report to Foxconn corporate security). Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

A man dies because either he misplaced or someone stole a prototype iPhone from him in China, and you morons are talking about how it's Apple's fault that the US economy is in the crapper?

Every computer company in the US uses foreign workers. Microsoft lobbied successfully the Bush administration to increase the number of foreign workers that they're allowed to hire. Call Dell or HP tech support and tell me if you don't get a south asian support person on the other line.
In the end you can blame yourselves for wanting cheaper toys now.

It's obvious fatty Frankenstein Steve Balmer and his cronies have lots of haters at work. They make absolutely no sense and are an embarrassment to humanity trying to convert a tragic death to political mud slinging. Dirty politics in the US is the lowest form rubbish and you all should be ashamed.

More the Apple dumpling hole in the great wall gang. Anytime you got one of them down-home sheriffs, you always got a town full of vigilantes. Be down at the old oak tree near Bambu Hill at twelve o'clock sharp for your hanging. And bring your own rope. Now the future Ifones will all be hainted, cursed to catch a Judas fire. Soy, Wong Number.

There must have been a flaw in the distortion field, which allowed him to see the reality of what he was involved with.
He couldn't handle it.

I get it ........ Blood Apples !!!!!!

In China, "All same, all Same!"

He wasn't an Apple worker. He was a Foxconn worker.

The issue is an internal Foxconn matter. Apple can't babysit its suppliers constantly.

CRS: "The issue is an internal Foxconn matter. Apple can't babysit its suppliers constantly."

Regardless if we are talking about Nike or Sony or HP or Apple, there is a level of responsibility, more so if you claim that your company does things 'differently'.

Obviously the other responsible partner is the consumer, if you mind that your cheap gadget is made in a fashion close to slavery then you shouldn't buy it.

This is just a new population reduction plan starting in China. It is called "cannonball off the twelfth floor"! It has nothing to do with Apple or Foxconn.

Since the news broke out about the suicide and recent article about possible foul play, all the article were about assumption and deduction.

If I recall it correctly, there is a global association in US that Apple, HP and other is a member, and its all about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The death may had occurred in Foxconn facility, but under the contract of Apple, there must be a contract between Apple and Foxconn that says Foxconn should act within the legal limit and adhere to CSR and corporate ethics. Are the legal people in Apple looking the other way in this case?

As for the missing iPhone, wouldn't it be too harsh for Foxconn security to speculate that a Foxconn employee stole the missing iPhone? in China, anything you ship out are subject to random custom inspection, and the custom official have the authority to retain one or more than one units for further inspection.

Have Foxconn people check with custom official? what about the freight handler? in between Foxconn shipping the item out and Apple receiving, there are several human intervention in between, from Foxconn product guy, to shipping, to forwarder, to custom, to forwarder in US, custom inspection in US, finally to Apple receiving.

This incident will probably an eye opener for the world to see how Foxconn really works.

The verdict is up to the people.

nike is a great seller.