There Are No Quick Fixes for Apple's Foxconn Problem

How about with all of the profits that Apple has reaped over the past couple years, they should move operations to the US. Give the american people a chance to proved that we can manufacture goods also.

So here is the truth. Apple has well over $ 100,000,000,000 in cash. ( Yes - that is with a "B" - as in one hundred BILLION dollars. You would think that at the very least they would pay their foreign oppressed slave labor force enough so they don't jump off the building on their lunch break. Especially since the $ 100 billion came from the slaves efforts.

All those propeller head Microsoft nerds will sign any online petition but did show up for the protests at the Apple stores on Monday.No just four showed up ,where are the other 199,996 others? all about nothing.

It all comes down to the greedy #$%$ at the top, who refuse to give up some profits so employees may have better working conditions. With the amount of cheap labor Apple is using, the iPad should cost no more than $250, and I bet they would still make a good profit.The shareholders control this move. They want to see big profits at any expense. In fact, they are probably the same people who invested in the banks who had a hand in the sub-prime fiasco.

How about moving the entire supply chain, every single component to the United States! Is Apple an American company or a Chinese Company!!!!!! Apple = Chinese computer. I love my apple computer but I HATE that it was made in China. How about support the country that made Apple the most valuable company!!!

Move the plants back to the United States. Of course, Steve Jobs would turn over in his grave.

From a company that has made its name on catering to the aristocracy and its sycophant subclasses? Lol, they'll never get me to believe their hollow apologetic.

So Apples people with a straight face said their efforts to fix the problem was to ento into suicide prevention pacts, and get more netes to prevent suicide. Then they say with the same straight face that this type of work requires harsh conditions? Where is the public outrage. Forget this company and its products. They are stealing workers lives and they are only concerned with profits. Their profits are evil and sinful and would be significantly less if they treated humans less like livestock. And where is it written APPLE CORPORATION that you have to make such large profit margins at the expense and destruction of human lives. This is not ancient civilization. The human race is becoming enlightened and educated and are waking up to this and are begining to say no more. APPLE CORPORATION sounds similar to coacaine cartels who put profits above human misery. The difference being ones destroys its consumer base while the other destroys its employee base. It is not written anywhere APPLE CORPORATION that you have to operate this way. Steve Job always wanted to change the world so now APPLE CORPORATION you shall do just that. The old capitalist ideals are out dated and obsolete. Time to spread around APPLES PROFITS among its employees. Employees are all those employees whether direct apple employees or subcontracted by apple to make apple parts or products. Less to executives and more to its regular employees. Leaders are being overthrown and governments violently replaced. This can happen to corporations make no mistake about it. DO NOT BUY ANY MORE APPLE PRODUCTS until they fix all the problems right now. Do not accept Apple saying it needs years to fix this! You want to fix America and wrangle her back from the destructive grip corporations hold over us then here is a good place to start. CHANGE LIVES APPLE BY CHANGING THE LIVES OF YOUR EMPLOYEES!

It's an American device.

"... an Apple executive told the Times. If not Foxconn, somewhere else. "

What does that tell you?

Of course there are no easy fixes. That would require an entire cultural change at the top, one that minimized the control that numbers people have over executive decisions while promoting those who emphasize people. Considering Apple's history of presenting itself as the icon of humanism as opposed to the cold sterility of Microsoft and Intel it is sad to see that they are nothing different in the end.

There Are No Quick Fixes? No? Apple try the following: higher pay, better working conditions, and company health. See if any one of those things solve the problem.

Apple ,like there products, are a fraud!

So according to the #$%$ Apple exec's twisted set of values, near slavery is a necessary evil. He may be in the top 1% in terms of material wealth but definitely the bottom 1% filth when it comes to human decency.

Greed - plain and simple. We looked the other way when we were on top of the world, but the greed has come back to bite us, because it's found other places to make more money.

The fact is that if Apple were willing to settle for a 40 percent profit margin as opposed to a 50 percent one, they could make it anywhere in the United States they wanted -- subject to being able to find employees with the right skills. And if we had better worker training in this country, they could probably produce here at the same profit margin as they do in China. It's not about the profit or the free market, it's about our leaders showing the political will to put the stuffing back in our economy.

Steve JOBS. LOL, does anyone else find it extremely ironic that his last name was jobs? Which his legacy will be, in order to best his foe Bill Gates, who had opened up the, ready for a little more irony-- flood gates for American business to operate in China in unethical manners, is this Foxconn thing, the outsourcing. If Apple would have made a game changer and manufactured in the U.S. I believe it would be an utter positive for them in the long run, but here we are, stuck with no choice really. If a company would manufacture in the U.S. I personally would prefer that product and I'd pay more for it.