>buying apple products. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30 540538

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meanwhile samsung is made by pure healthy korean qts that love their job

>>45681156
>plastic making plastic

ayyyy lmao

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>>45681181
they even kiss every phone before shipping :3

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based samsung

omg how terrible

Posted from my iPhone

>>45681037
>Not referring to them as Asspull, the name you should call them if you value technology at all.

Why does /g/ support apple products so much?

>>45681247
shills and cucks

every socialist-liberal who brag about their apple shit better explain themselves about this.

>>45681156
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>>45681218
>those tired eyes

>>45681247
They also support Linux, so what do you expect?

>>45681264
have you ever worked in your life you fat nerd? you know it's not exactly sitting in your chair all day

>>45681282

Lol no, I'm not a wageslave faggot.The government gives me all my money.

>>45681305
filtered. not wasting my time on loser

>>45681264
Dude, everyone who works gets tired eyes, at least they look healthy and happy.

>>45681278
to be more informed? I guess that's too much to ask.

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>>45681037
suicides are so common that they literally put nets everywhere so people can't jump from buildings

is foxconn still making iphones?

Shitty work conditions for sure, but what would they be doing otherwise?

IBM uses chinese slave labour
>lol stupid chinks serves them right

Apple used Chinese slave labour
>SJW Defence force, go!

>>45681337
>Although the number of workplace suicides at the company was large in absolute terms, the rate is still low when compared to the rest of China.[8] (However, the country has a high suicide rate with over 20 deaths per 100,000 persons.[15]) In 2010, the worst year for workplace suicides at Foxconn with a total of 14 deaths, the total employee count was a reported 930,000 people.[16] The average workplace suicide rate for Foxconn that year was 1.5 per 100,000 making it well below the national average suicide rate (around 7% of the national average).

>>45681316
I mean, they're idiots. Linux supporters are idiots. Idiots support Asspull. Answer: Given.

>>45681037
Where's the video, BBC, you retarded faggots? What's the point of this article?

>>45681383
You're the one that clicked it; you tell me

>>45681218
>>45681206
>>45681156
>In Samsung’s Gi-Heung and On-Yang semiconductor plants, at least 26 employees were diagnosed with blood cancer, a total 193 person got sick with cancers or rare terminal diseases.[129] [130] Initially Samsung denied being responsible for the illnesses. Although Samsung is known to disfavor trade unions,[131] these sick workers organized in the group SHARPS (Supporters for the Health And Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry).[132] A crowd funded movie named Another Promise was produced in 2013 in order to depict the fight for compensation of the victims, as well as a documentary named The Empire of Shame. In May 2014, Samsung offered an apology and compensation to workers who got ill.[133][134] The quarrel is still ongoing, as the number of sick and dead employees is still rising.

nice astroturfing though
really well fucking done
that lady is probably dead by now

>>45681264
That's normal for Asians you racist cunt.

>>45681457
How did they get cancer from assembling electronics?

>>45681457
And this is why you all should be buying Motorola products.

>>45681366
Apple makes huge profits, so they could afford to provide better working conditions.

Does IBM even still make consumer electronics?
Other phone manufacturers like Nokia produce in countries like India, where worker rights are (slightly) better.

>>45681542
Also, since apple is one of the biggest companies and one of the wealthiest not only can they afford to pay the workers properly and provide them better working conditions but if they wanted to, they could charge much more for their shinny metal toys. Apple fags only buy them as status symbols anyways.

>>45681037

It's not like other companies do the same shit.

>>45681522
Motorola products are made by Lenovo, you idiot.

>>45681037

>thinking all the other firms coming out with phones/laptops aren't using exploited labor as well

smarten up, nas

>>45681366

Also IBM used to provide computers to the Nazi Germany which were used for the Holocaust.

>>45681575
>Implying Asspull can even be considered status worthy.

I don't get it

Apple gets gorilillions shekels from all retards around the globe still they need to "save money" in China by abusing workers.

How someone can be so evil?

>>45681631
Plebeian is a status.

>>45681262

i am a leftist but i don't buy Apple products because they represent the worst type of capitalism.

>>45681604
>exploited

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>>45681037
I've never purchased or owned any Apple products, but if there is one thing I don't care about, it's the treatment of the workers who make my stuff.

If it's reasonably-priced and of good quality, I'm happy.

>>45681636
That's just how capitalism works.

When you're on the stock market you are required by law to maximize profits.

Squeezing your workers for the last few shekels is what shareholders demand.

>>45681636
You don't become a millionaire giving away your money (In this case, not choosing the cheapest labour force)

>>45681636
Corporations cannot be evil, they only exist to produce profit for their shareholders.
So in turn, you're asking how can Apple's shareholders be so evil.

>>45681641
Only if you are one.

>>45681037

>Try to find a phone that is made in a western country without slave labor
>lol not available in America yet

I tried.

However, the situation with Apple is pretty amusing if you think about it. Their profit margins are extremely high, they cater to wealthier and presumably more socially concerned clientele, and then they turn around and pay their workers shit. Ripping off those college kids and cheating them out of a sense of moral superiority.

>>45681673
Perhaps they could hold a poll amongst the shareholders: Provide decent conditions to hundreds of thousands of Chinese at the cost of 0.1% of your shares value. - Y or N?

>>45681683
>pay their workers shit
How do you know? Do you look at Apple's accounting? Do you know what the median pay for similar work in China is?

>>45681672

Let's say Apple migrate their factories to USA, they will go bankrupt fast?

>>45681156
Index fingers don't leave prints?

>>45681701
Foxconn is decent conditions. Otherwise they would either be unemployed, working in a worse manual labor job, or working in a rice patty for nothing practically.

>>45681740
They tried American labor recently, and it failed.

>>45681740
At the prices they charge for their shit, they shouldn't, but given that they're making insane profit margins right now, why would they take any sort of cut in profits?

>>45681744
Just people those people are desperate doesn't mean it's "decent" to treat them like that.

>>45681772
Foxconn has some of the lowest suicides in China. How can they help it if people in China want to kill themselves?

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>>45681383

It's right at the top of the page you mong

>>45681790
Nobody expects Apple to fix all of China's problems.

But caring about your own workers is the least you can expect from a company.
If not out of moral grounds, then at least to improve build quality (which, coincidentally, is has gone down the shitter on all Apple products)

>>45681825
I posted a quote earlier that Foxconn had extremely low suicides compared to the rest of China, and then when there was a spate of suicides they installed nets to catch people.

>>45681374

Where's the evidence that they were forced to work 18 days in a row, maybe they wanted to for the overtime?

>>45681037
This shit pisses me off so much.
Chinese workers, employed by a Chinese company, in China, and somehow this is Apple's fault.
Don't think for a second I'm defending Apple, this applies to any company that outsources it's labor to Asia, so fucking most of them.
How is it our responsibility to police working conditions in these countries? Where is the Chinese government in all this? Where are the owners and operators of these slave factories?
When people get angry at companies for 'using slave labor', is anyone pressuring the governments of these countries who actually have the power to end corruption and clean up the system?
Why is fucking Tim Cook made to apologize when whoever operates these factories gets to keep their slaves?

>>45681890
>slave factories

>>45681657
Thanks for joining us tonight to tell your tale.

Can't we get an impartial source, not the ridiculously leftist BBC?

>>45681890
i've also heard that taking a nap at work is common in chinese culture and the whole story is just liberal tears

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>>45681181

>>45681890
Well Tim Cock can't really say "but they let me it's their fault!"

>>45682001
Do they also get "free housing", anon?

>>45681181
ay lmao

>shit happening at foxconn gets exclusively blamed on apple
It's like I'm in 2010 again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers

You guys, along with the "enjoy ur 2000 dolla facebook machine XD" please do us a favor and remove yourselves from this board. 9gag is more suited to your tastes anyways.

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>Bleeding heart libtards cry about Apple and Foxconn
>Continues to use other Chinese products which were made by Foxconn or some other company which is just as bad, if not worse.

>>45682107
Hi Miles.

>>45682107
Sorry for living

>>45682085
>b-but muh apple, eco-friendly, think different

>>45681264
They're just asian, dude.

>>45682137
>on noes my argument is unmade now I must resort to putting words into other people's mouths via maymay arrows

>>45681501
...u got a lot to learn kid.

>>45681262
I don't give a shit about other people suffering.

Then again, I also don't own apple products (over priced)

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>>45682785
well then it sure would be comical if you were to start dying from a painful terminal illness, wouldnt it... here's to that happening *clink*

>>45682107
Its only bad when apple does it

This is old ass news. Everything is made in fucking china anyways.

OK so I have a mid 2011 iMac 27" and its getting sluggish and pissin me off lately. I've cleaned up files and whatnot but it still sucks. It was so fast when I first got it. I just ordered 16GB of extra RAM so maybe that will end this. Any other tips?

I work a shitload in Adobe CC (PS, AI, ID, LR, DW, and AE)

>Muh workers

>>45682785
>I don't give a shit about other people suffering.

Ah another sociopath on 4chan, rape and kill any women today while we're at it?

People getting upset about this shit pisses me off.

I don't see any abuse happening at all, just some fucking people sleeping during a break which is totally normal.

Oh god they aren't stimulated by monotonous soul crushing repetitive motion, who the hell wouldn't get tired???

It's fucking disgusting how all of you are defending Apple. For fucks sake these are human beings just like you.

>>45682955
Did you miss the part where they were working over 60 hours a week and having their IDs stolen?

>>45682978
Someday you'll realize that most of the people here are autistic fucks that lack the slightest bit of empathy. I would leave this place, but it's too much fun.

>>45682978
>Chinks

>>45682978
anon, i...

this is neo /g/, it's almost all apple shils.

>>45682901
That's pretty much all you can do. You can probably swap the HDD for a SSD if you want to have it run plenty faster.

>>45683007
nice meme xD southpark is da best!!!!

>>45682982
The ID shit is taken out of context, who knows if they gave it back or not because they don't say.

Overtime is normal and it isn't like they aren't getting paid for it.

>>45683044
bro it literally said they didn't give it back. Did you even watch the video?

>>45683018
Not just that. All other companies exploit workers in some way. Especially those who make your really nice $89 polo shirt. Not sure why Apple is being singled out. I guess being the largest company it's about ganging-up on the big guy.

>>45683052
No it didn't.
All they said was he took their ID and the interviewee said he felt helpless when they did.

>>45683062
No, he says he demanded they return his ID and he felt helpless when they DIDN'T.

>>45681037
I'm glad Apple will investigate and fix things. I hope this means Chinese workers get paid the same as American workers with and at have at least the same conditions. Otherwise, why would our country bother doing business with countries who routinely abuse human beings? Just stop trade with China.