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From: Jim on 27 May 2010 05:37 On 2010-05-27, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:12:15 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> > wrote: > > >>> Hmm, but on something that is already 'expensive' would that really be >>> an issue? >> >>No, especially as they could absorb some of that (their profit margins tend >>towards 30%). Additionally they could play the 'locally made' card for all >>they're worth, which would be great advertising for them. >> >>The fact that they don't tells me that it would cost a lot more than �25 >> > Maybe I'm just more more cynical then. ;-) Quite possibly. The benefits of Apple manfacturing locally (per country) would vastly outweigh the trivial price increase, if it were truly trivial. The fact that they don't suggests to me that it wouldn't be a trivial price increase. Plus, as has been pointed out, 10 or 12 suicides per year in a workforce of almost half a million may well have nothing at all to do with the company, but instead just be the usual numbers you'd see in any group of 500,000 people in China. Or the West for that matter. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "RESEARCH showing that men lie more than women is proof they should stop asking them awkward questions in the first place, say scientists." - The Daily Mash
From: T i m on 27 May 2010 05:36 On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:52:21 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > >I was recently wondering that. There was a shirt I looked at in M&S >which was �29. The same sort of thing was �7 in primark. I know that >primark stuff is all made from the blood of unicorns, the tears of >children and thread made from live skinned kittens, but on the label it >appears that M&S stuff is made in the same place. Ah, another example of the 'Apple TAX' then. And you are mistaken, that M&S one wasn't just a shirt ... Cheers, T i m p.s. That just reminded me where I have seen the Apple / M&S sales techniques before ... "These aren't the droids you're looking for ... ". ;-)
From: Jim on 27 May 2010 05:41 On 2010-05-27, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:23:39 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> > wrote: > >>On 2010-05-27, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>and probably lots and lots of others. >>>> >>>> Yup. ;-) >>>> >>>> There is nothing any of those supply that is worth someones life. >>> >>> True, but you have to remember that Foxconn is _huge_. We're talking about a >>> company that has a workforce with numbers close to that of a city. The >> >>I've just checked - according to CNN they employ close to half a million >>people (486,000 as of 2009). >> >><http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/snapshots/11204.html> >> > Feck. Or to put it into perspective, slightly less than the current population of Bradford. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "RESEARCH showing that men lie more than women is proof they should stop asking them awkward questions in the first place, say scientists." - The Daily Mash
From: T i m on 27 May 2010 05:39 On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:28:40 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-05-27, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>and probably lots and lots of others. >> >> >> >> Yup. ;-) >> >> >> >> There is nothing any of those supply that is worth someones life. >> > >> > True, but you have to remember that Foxconn is _huge_. We're talking about a >> > company that has a workforce with numbers close to that of a city. The >> >> I've just checked - according to CNN they employ close to half a million >> people (486,000 as of 2009). >> >> <http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/snapshots/11204.html> > >In which case 10 suicides is a remarkably low figure as it is a long way >below average Ah, that's ok then, get Apple making more stuff over there (or at least till the Apple production lines hit national suicide average). ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: Sak Wathanasin on 27 May 2010 05:51
On 27 May, 09:52, use...(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > I was recently wondering that. There was a shirt I looked at in M&S > which was £29. The same sort of thing was £7 in primark. I know that > primark stuff is all made from the blood of unicorns, the tears of > children and thread made from live skinned kittens, but on the label it > appears that M&S stuff is made in the same place. They may be made in the same place, but the M&S stuff use better material - Primark stuff fall apart after a couple of washes. You pays your money... |