Inside Apple's iPhone Factory In China

Last month it emerged that Apple, the most valuable company in the world and supposedly an icon of squeaky-clean progressive values, brushed aside allegations of labour within its key Chinese supply chain.

The suggestion is that a big Apple supplier named Suyin Electronics employed workers as young as 14, in the interests of keeping up with the ferocious appetite for Apple goods in the west. Apple chided Suyin, but maintained ties for months and even years afterwards.

With new allegations like this, and a spate of associated with the brand’s manufacturing base over the years, we thought it was time we put on our lanyards and take a peek inside an iPhone factory in China.

Inside An iPhone Factory in China

[Joyo_Fi]

"That's horrible" - sent via iphone

[RizzoDaManiac]

Americans: OMG this is so wrong!

Meanwhile: Walmart and Amazon

[radthunderdan]

Easily some of the most under appreciated people. Dull, mundane, unfulfilling work sucks. I hope conditions get better for them, and I wish them all the best.

[stopmotionwarehouse]

You know it’s miserable when there’s freaking suicide nets.

[ShuzhanSun]

Apple's price doesn’t depend on the cost, but depends on how much apple want to charge you customers for their brand😌

[brothersabo]

I like how there is only a momentary showing of the suicide nets and not a word about them.

[eggboii]

Location: China
Workers: Children
Company: Taiwanese
Apple: American
Me: Confusion

[charlesrobert]

I've worked in various factories for 35 years often doing repetitive work from soldering electronics to assembly. It can be very satisfying if not pressured to produce more than your able. I remember once as a teenager a foreman assigned me to work with 12 women putting pins and springs into key locks. The more they produced as a group the more they got paid. These women would talk to each other without looking down to pick multiple lengths of pins and springs, place them into the cylinders and down the belt it would go till it got to my station. I fumbled repeatedly and had has so many parts on the floor that the line came to a stop and they all eyed me like devils. One lady shot out of her seat, stormed into the foreman's and had me removed. I looked at the clock, less than ten minutes had passed.

[Billck]

That why those factory will never move back to US.

[louieg]

Apple: *lectures the world about progressive ideologies*
World: So, are you gonna stop doing business with abusive companies now?
Apple: Well yes, but actually no!

[alphahoss]

Behind every piece of new technology manufactured there is suffering somewhere in the world!

[kaysha]

So they manufacture for everybody but the title says "Inside an Apple factory"? It's a Foxconn factory.
Great information nevertheless

[Marsalien]

This reminds me of my job at Amazon right here in CANADA. This isn't just a China problem.

[ImportDomestic]

Let’s be honest every iPhone they produce provides Apple with a huge cash cow by overcharging customers and having a low paying work force.

[laurabi]

My brother is working at one of the electric factories like this. He chose to work there because he get paid. China has huge population, people want to work to support themselves and their family. There is no need to force anyone to work. It’s funny that so many people who have never been to China thought they know everything about China.

[goncalofilipe]

I love how apple and foxconn could provide fair conditions to these workers by sacrificing some of their revenue but just practice the highest cost the market allows and provide workers with the bear minimum. Inspiring :')

[guens]

He said "employees are bored" while showing employees taking a nap. Classic

[utk]

Its not just apple but every other phone manufacturer, thats doing this

[tweezerjam]

If I ran a factory with this scenario I’d train everyone to master at least two different stations, just to keep morale up and my employees engaged. You can be more productive if you’re invested in what you’re doing. 💯

[BlindMango]

A company or person who always shouts how "progressive!" and "virtuous!" they are, are almost always the opposite of that