Apple China Factory Documentary. Today, the iPhone is made at a number of different factories around China, but for years, as it became the bestselling product in the world, it was largely assembled at Foxconn’s 1.4 square-mile. Apple and Foxconn are in fact strengthening, rather than reducing their hold in the Chinese supply chain. Local company Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd. recently acquired Taiwan Wistron Corp.'s iPhone production business in China for 472 million U.S. dollars. The company also produces a range of other Apple gadgets such as AirPods. BBC documentary highlights conditions at a Chinese iPhone factory, but is it all Apple's fault?. Whatever device you’re reading this article on was built in a factory, most likely in China.
The poor conditions in Chinese factories were highlighted in 2010 when 14 workers killed themselves at Apple's biggest supplier, Foxconn. Following the suicides, Apple published a set of standards. Apple is investigating a factory in southwest China after a labour rights group said the tech giant’s supplier forced student workers to work “like robots” to assemble its popular Apple Watch.
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Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar made “American Factory” about an Ohio factory taken over by a Chinese company, and then Barack and Michelle Obama signed to produce on via Netflix. Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar made “American Factory” about an Ohio factory taken over by a Chinese company, and then Barack and Michelle Obama signed to produce on via Netflix. Inside Apple's Chinese 'sweatshop' factory where workers are paid just £1.12 per hour to produce iPhones and iPads for the West. Factories covered in suicide nets to stop workers leaping to their. Apple is investigating a factory in southwest China after a labour rights group said the tech giant’s supplier forced student workers to work “like robots” to assemble its popular Apple Watch.
