Adam Kos The current situation with the availability of iPhones, especially the iPhone 14 Pro, is really bleak. Apple has been underestimating the situation for a long time, and if it doesn't change something radically, it will lose out first and foremost. Customers still want his products, but there is no one to make them.
Foxconn is a multinational corporation headquartered in Taiwan in Chengdu, a district of the New Taipei City Special Municipality. However, Foxconn also operates here, with factories in Pardubice or Kutná Hora, for example. We don't know how the local employees are doing, but probably better than the Chinese ones. Foxconn is the world's largest manufacturer of electronics, but it produces for contract partners, including Apple, for which it makes components not only for iPhones, but also for iPads and Macs. It also produces motherboards for Intel and other components for Dell, Sony, Microsoft or Motorola, etc.
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We have nothing against Foxconn, but the fact that on the Czech Wikipedia you can find a mention of how the company decided to react to a series of suicides of its workers in 2010, really, everything there probably won't be fine in the long term, that is, not even today, which proves current message. Although Apple is known for taking care of the conditions of the employees of the companies that produce components for it, it is beginning to pay the price for the fact that it failed to diversify its supply chain and still relies heavily on China and Foxconn.
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First it started with the fact that workers at the iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, China, began to refuse to work in the conditions prevailing there. For that reason, the company started looking for a hundred thousand new employees, among whom were to be members of the army, in order for the company to cover its obligations. Although Foxconn has increased its employees' bonuses, it is apparently not enough.
More riots broke out at Foxconn factory in communist #china's Zhengzhou. Violence clashes escalated by both CCP & Chinese rioters, tear gas grenades were fired as Chinese rioters returned hostile w/ fire distinguisher. pic.twitter.com/5OU7dXAiiE
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The whole situation has now escalated rather unpleasantly as the local workers started rioting and even clashed with the police after going on a rampage that broke windows and security cameras. Of course, the employees complain not only about the conditions but also the salaries, and these assets of theirs are supposed to draw attention to the situation, which according to them is intolerable. According to Reuters, these actions of public dissent were triggered because of a plan to delay the payment of bonuses to employees. COVID-19 is also to blame, because it is said that the security measures of Foxconn and the whole of China are failing.
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Of course, Apple did not comment on the situation. Additionally, this is not the first unrest that has occurred at a Foxconn factory. In May, workers at the Shanghai plant that makes MacBook Pros rioted over countermeasures coronavir. Although China is far from us, it has a clear influence on the operation of the entire world economy. Just as I don't want to eat palm oil, just as I don't want to buy blood diamonds, I'm not entirely sure I want to support similar riots by waiting for an iPhone that some exploited Chinese worker has to make for me, and which costs an exorbitant amount of money the amount from the bundle of money that I will pay for Apple's iPhone.
