Apple now gets the Republican treatment.
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
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#12I find Steve Jobs repellent, but he was once committed to manufacturing hardware in the United States. The minor undercurrent of criticism since his passing has been Apple's manufacturing vendors in Asia. Forgotten is the drag on NeXT by its decision to build a factory in Fremont, CA. It was way overbuilt, and sucked up a lot of the money fronted by Canon and Ross Perot to keep NeXT alive while it was largely unable…
Steve Jobs took it up publicly before he died about how the American government could make manufacturing in the US to be a more attractive option for companies like Apple.
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#13This isn't as exciting, but along the same lines, I once spied on the people repairing my MBP: http://ecritters.biz/applecarefacility/
It'd be great to see the iSight script if you're up for sharing. I also wonder what was wrong with your MBP, from the photos it looked like there was some initial activity and then a lot of nothing, then a final check and I guess they returned it fixed? Hilarious, thanks for sharing.
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#14Brilliant and incredibly sad storytelling.
This is an understatement and I highly encourage everyone to take the time and listen.
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#15"You. Are going to need alot. Of business cards."
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#16If anyone gets the chance to go see the Mike Daisey monologue excerpted (The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs) I'd highly, highly recommend it whether you love Apple, hate Apple, or are somewhere in between. He's an amazing storyteller.
He's performing in NYC on January 31st.
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#17Hopefully the story is more honest than the title, since Foxconn is less an "Apple factory" than it is the company that pretty much assembles all of the best electronic devices in the world (at least according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Clients ).
Not that it matters but the show's original title was "Where Your Crap Comes From."
According to This American Life, it's an excerpt from "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs".
Review: http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/theater/reviews/the-ag...
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#18I find Steve Jobs repellent, but he was once committed to manufacturing hardware in the United States. The minor undercurrent of criticism since his passing has been Apple's manufacturing vendors in Asia. Forgotten is the drag on NeXT by its decision to build a factory in Fremont, CA. It was way overbuilt, and sucked up a lot of the money fronted by Canon and Ross Perot to keep NeXT alive while it was largely unable…
This was discussed a bit in the Issacson book, both the NeXT factory being overdone and Jobs talking to President Obama about business in the US.
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#19This is incredible storytelling and is very humanist. I'd really recommend listening to it. We use these devices everyday and don't even think about it.
Here's an article from Gizmodo about an undercover journalist: http://gizmodo.com/5542527/undercover-report-from-foxconns-h...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/metro/2010-06/02/content_992207...
and a direct link to the mp3: http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/454.mp3
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#20If one of you guys, someday happen to be wealthy; i highly recommend hiring people that work at Foxconn and other corporate farms of misery; they would probably be really, and i mean really the most loyal and thankful workers in the world if you can give them a decent salary for decent amount of hours.