China Decides iPhones Pose a National Security Risk
China Decides iPhones Pose a National Security Risk
Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.
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Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.
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“Made in China”
Looks like Apple will soon go shopping for a new sweatshop
7 3 ReplyThey’ve already been in India for a while, they’ll just expand there while looking for another one as a backup.
10 0 ReplyThey could always use Taiwan. All the benefits of a chinese sweatshop except it's not China.
5 3 ReplyYou should check salaries in Taiwan.
5 0 Replybetween 23-32k TWD yearly for factory workers (from the couple of sites I saw) which is less than 1k USD
I have no clue what the purchasing power of that is though.
2 1 ReplyI'm not sure where you got these numbers from but I think you're off by over a magnitude. Taiwan's GDP per capita is over US$30K nominal, and over US$70K PPP. In GDP per capita PPP they're sitting around 13th in the world as of 2023. The minimum wage is over US$800 per month. Trading Economics shows manufacturing average salary of over US$1600 per month. You might have looked at monthly numbers thinking they're yearly. Although even that's low given that the lower bound is lower than minimum wage.
5 0 Replywell shit glassdoor does default to monthly instead of yearly. this is their fault and i will get revenge.
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Yep. They’ve been using their cash and Cook’s supply chain skills to crush competition and secure sweatshops wherever cheap labor can be found. It’s been going on for years. I think they have seen the tensions building in China and Taiwan and have been making mostly subtle changes for years. Covid was an excuse to ramp that up.
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