AT&T is now taking preorders for the new iPhone 4, but can't guarantee when you will actually get it because of the incredibly high demand. I, like many I imagine, thought they should simply make more, make them faster, and certainly make them cheaper.
The iPhone is manufactured by Foxconn:
Ma Xiangqian, a 19-year-old migrant from the eastern Chinese province of Henan, worked the 11-hour night shift, seven days a week, putting together electronic parts for Foxconn Technology, the world’s biggest contract maker of information technology goods.
By all accounts, he hated his job. In the month before his death in January, Ma worked 286 hours, including 112 hours of overtime – about three times the legal limit. And after an altercation with a superior, he had been demoted to cleaning toilets.
SACOM has picked up the cause of Yan Li, 27, an engineer who started at Foxconn in April 2007. By the group's account, Yan clocked in for the night shift Tuesday May 25, worked 34 straight hours, and came home Thursday morning, where he collapsed and died from exhaustion. According to his wife, Yan had been on the night shift for a month and had worked overtime every night.
Earlier this week, Foxconn issued this statement: "We have reviewed this matter and while we cannot speculate the specific cause of death, we have found nothing to support any allegation that it was work-related."
All this brought to mind the music video to one of my favorite songs of recent years:
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