Feb 22, 2012
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Here’s what we learned:
It takes 141 steps to make an iPhone, and the devices are essentially all handmade
It takes five days and 325 hands to make a single iPad
Foxconn produces 300k iPad camera modules per day
Foxconn workers pay for their own food — about $.70 per meal, and work 12 hour shifts
Workers who live in the dorms sleep six to eight a room, and pay $17.50 a month to do so
Workers make $1.78 an hour
New employees at Foxconn undergo three days of training and “team building” exercises before they begin
The FLA (which Apple brought in to audit Foxconn) is interested in whether or not workers will look up at visitors in a factory — if they’ll be “willing to look at curiosities”
Apple paid $250,000 to join the FLA, and is paying for its audit
Louis Woo, when asked if he would accept Apple demanding double pay for employees replied “Why not?”
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Here’s what we learned:

  • It takes 141 steps to make an iPhone, and the devices are essentially all handmade
  • It takes five days and 325 hands to make a single iPad
  • Foxconn produces 300k iPad camera modules per day
  • Foxconn workers pay for their own food — about $.70 per meal, and work 12 hour shifts
  • Workers who live in the dorms sleep six to eight a room, and pay $17.50 a month to do so
  • Workers make $1.78 an hour
  • New employees at Foxconn undergo three days of training and “team building” exercises before they begin
  • The FLA (which Apple brought in to audit Foxconn) is interested in whether or not workers will look up at visitors in a factory — if they’ll be “willing to look at curiosities”
  • Apple paid $250,000 to join the FLA, and is paying for its audit
  • Louis Woo, when asked if he would accept Apple demanding double pay for employees replied “Why not?”

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