Fair Labor Association says China iPad and iPhone factory conditions are more...
Apple recently requested that the Fair Labor Association conduct audits of its assembly suppliers, with Foxconn being a focus due to recent media attention surrounding the working conditions there. The...
View ArticleiPhone Live 280: Privacy, China, iPad 3, Clear, 8-bit gamepads
Rene, Georgia, and Seth discuss apps that steal contacts, the China debate, iPad 3 and LTE, Clear, Death Call, Warm Gun, and Instagram apps, and the iCade 8-Bitty. This is iPhone & iPad...
View ArticleFoxconn employees get 16-25% raise, factories facing new environmental audits
With working conditions in Chinese factories still making headlines, Apple manufacturer Foxconn is going to be increasing wages, and Apple is reportedly going to allow independent environmental reviews...
View ArticleNightline goes inside Apple's Chinese iFactory
Nightline has aired their well publicized "exclusive look inside Apple's factory in China", which follows a month of media, environmental, and social scrutiny of the Chinese factory system. Apple...
View ArticleiPhone & iPad Live 281: iFactories, iPad 3, Screens, Fitness apps and gear
Rene, Georgia, and Seth talk legislated privacy disclosures, iFactories investigated, OS X Mountain Lion, iPad 3 rumors, Screens VNC, and apps and accessories to keep you fit and healthy. This is...
View ArticleApple touts U.S. job creation-through-innovation on new web page
Apple has placed a new page on their website with a lot of big numbers focused on how they're creating jobs in the U.S. in important and innovative ways.Throughout our history, Apple has created...
View ArticleiPhone & iPad Live 286: The new iPad review
Georgia, Seth, and Rene quickly cover the fallout of Chinese factory stories being faked, Apple's cash balance announcement, and the week's headlines, then dive deep into the 2012 iPad review, covering...
View ArticleEditor's desk: New iPad wrap up, Daisey, resolutionizing, 4G, features, and...
Better late than never, right? That's going to be a bit of a recurring theme for the first few items on this week's hit list, as we wrap up our new iPad coverage and dive head-long into the rest of the...
View Article95% of Apple's Asian employees are within overtime compliance
Since January, Apple's supply chain laborforce has jumped from 84% compliance with overtime standards to 95%, according to this month's Supplier Responsibility report. Apple is also reporting that...
View ArticleApple to split factory working condition costs with Foxconn
Foxconn's CEO Terry Gou recently revealed that they intend to split the initial costs of improving factory working conditions with Apple following an extensive third-party audit of the facilities where...
View ArticleiPhone and iPad factory conditions haven't improved says activist group
A Hong Kong-based activist group called The Student & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior has recently issued a report concluding that very little has change in terms of working conditions since...
View ArticleApple aims to open more flagship stores in China
Chinese officials have confirmed that Apple is looking to open new stores in Chengdu and Shenzhen, the home town of Apple's major manufacturing partner, Foxconn. Apple only has to get an environmental...
View ArticleFoxconn says the iPhone 5 is the most difficult device they've ever...
iPhone supply shortages happen almost every year, but with the iPhone 5 they've been compounded by quality assurance concerns -- namely chips and scratches occurring at the factory before the devices...
View ArticleCurious number of new iMacs born in the USA
For some time now there have been Apple products that bore "Assembled in USA" labelling, specifically built-to-order custom-configured Macs. But standard configurations of MacBooks and iMacs...
View ArticleApple improving factory conditions in China, still no place you'd want to work
Working conditions at the Chinese factories operated by Foxconn, where vast amounts of the gadgets used around the world are made, including Apple's iPhone and iPad, are improving. Granted, that's...
View ArticleApple's suppliers: an interactive map
While Apple's relationship with Chinese factories came under fire last year, and their processor and glass manufacturing in the U.S. came up as a result, there's a lot more to their logistics than just...
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