Maybe they volunteered to work with the PS4 ? It could be like work experience or something. You can't always believe what you read in the papers and the net. Maybe after all this Sony will give them all a free PS4 knowing how generous they are
Maybe they volunteered to work with the PS4 ? It could be like work experience or something. You can't always believe what you read in the papers and the net. Maybe after all this Sony will give them all a free PS4 knowing how generous they are
Maybe they volunteered to work with the PS4 ? It could be like work experience or something. You can't always believe what you read in the papers and the net. Maybe after all this Sony will give them all a free PS4 knowing how generous they are
unfortunately for some companies cheaper costs outweigh ethical dilemmas. Some might just turn a blind eye to it, others might try to justify it because it might be the norm in that country. Without any accountability for the companies that use companies like Foxconn the cycle will just keep perpetuating itself. Not saying that is what Sony is doing, but at the same time Apple is like 50% or more of Foxconn's business and despite the issues that have come to light in the past that hasn't changed, and it's not like Apple wasn't aware of the situation, and I am sure their consumers made their dislike of the situations known.Foxconn has a reputation for this kind of thing, it's not the first time they've been in a news about poor practices at their plants.
Still, I find it hard to believe that Sony was all "Foxconn? With their reputation? SURE THING!". I can't imagine any company would have that kind of attitude about it, but anything's possible.
Maybe they volunteered to work with the PS4 ? It could be like work experience or something. You can't always believe what you read in the papers and the net. Maybe after all this Sony will give them all a free PS4 knowing how generous they are
Are you saying that Foxconn might not be treating their employees horribly? I really hope you are not that naive.So where are Xbox1's made Mexico or something ? But both companies would be doing a similar thing to get cheap labour but you just don't know the full story. Maybe it's true, or a little true or way off, only Sony would know for sure.
Well, that's one way to spin it.Maybe they volunteered to work with the PS4 ? It could be like work experience or something. You can't always believe what you read in the papers and the net. Maybe after all this Sony will give them all a free PS4 knowing how generous they are
Foxconn is the Devil, and Sony is in service of the enemy just like everyone else too unwilling to opt out of Foxconn's cheap manufacturing and assembly costs. Sony loses my respect for this. Choosing Foxconn is a terrible no-no.
None of these electronics companies have my respect, but I have to buy goods all the same because I have no choice. It's not like I have the choice of buying American-made goods when everything is Made In China.I hope you don't buy electronics made in China....or clothes...or anything really.
None of these electronics companies have my respect, but I have to buy goods all the same because I have no choice. It's not like I have the choice of buying American-made goods when everything is Made In China.
http://madeinusaforever.com/None of these electronics companies have my respect, but I have to buy goods all the same because I have no choice. It's not like I have the choice of buying American-made goods when everything is Made In China.
Realistically tho, none of those products are of interest to me.
Oh my, shades of the Kathy Lee Gifford scandal and the recent Walmart/Chinese child labor scandal, and dozens of other such incidents, over the years, concerning Chinese labor practices. Capitalists decide to build factories and/or have goods manufactured in a Totalitarian State, and then feign horror at what is discovered every time someone inconveniently turns over a rock. It would all be so amusing if wasn't so disingenuous and sad.since foxconn is also used by other companies, I chose to put this thread here
interesting, none the less
http://www.gamesinasia.com/report-foxconn-using-forced-student-labor-to-build-sonys-ps4/
C. Custer | On 10, Oct 2013
If reports in the Chinese press are to be believed, Sony’s next-gen games console may be being assembled using some very outdated labor practices. According to Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily, thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant assembling the Sony Playstation 4. Students have been told if they refuse to participate, they lose six course credits, which effectively means they will not be able to graduate.
Officially, the program is considered an “internship” and it is publicly recognized and promoted by the school. But students have said that once they got to Foxconn, they were assigned to jobs that had no relation whatsoever to their fields of study, including grunt work like distribution and shipping. One student, for example, majored in finance and accounting but has been assigned to a job that entails glueing together parts of Sony’s Playstation 4. Another was assigned to a job that entails peeling of the PS4′s protective plastic and putting stickers on it. Still another, a computer science major, puts the PS4′s various cords and the instruction manual into the console’s box. Moreover, students say that their working hours are exactly the same as regular workers. The only difference is that unlike the workers, the students aren’t there voluntarily.
Oh no, we have 11 million under-paid "migrants" for that sort of thing.Once the product arrives in the good 'ol USA it's probably packaged by prison labor.
http://newsone.com/1562805/prison-labor-statistics-wiki/
The you obviously didn't look over all of the products very closely.Realistically tho, none of those products are of interest to me.
The you obviously didn't look over all of the products very closely.
How could this be of no interest to you!?:
They got a free copy of Knack.
Hell, Americans are lucky if they can even sell goods at a Farmers' Market without being shutdown by the government, fined, or arrested.