Video footage has
revealed how a new iPad is produced every two seconds in Apple's
controversial Chinese factories.
Marketplace’s
journalist Rob Schmitz produced the exclusive video when given
special access to the Foxconn factories in the southern city of
Shenzhen by Apple public relations.
Schmitz reported every
single part of an iPad is fastened by a worker in seconds, and
repeated hundreds of times a day.
He said the factory is
separated into working groups which are each responsible for
different parts of the iPad - from the chip, the motherboard and the
battery to the touch screen.
Schmitz called the work
hypnotic, and their movements engineered to be efficient as possible.
“At the end of each
line, workers box up iPads as fast as they can,” he said.
“After timing several
lines, I arrived at a very rough estimate: one new iPad every two
seconds. It’s believed that Apple makes between $200 and $300
off each iPad. If that’s true, the people in this room help Apple
make more than $10 million in pure profit, each day.”
Schmitz is the second
journalist after Bill Weir, of the US ABC’s Nightline, to be
granted an exclusive tour inside Foxconn.
Apple opened up the
secretly guarded factories after an independent labour audit
announced workers often put in 60-hour weeks - violating Chinese law.
Foxconn was the site of
nine suicide attempts and seven confirmed deaths over the past year.
An estimated 360 workers reportedly threatened suicide last year
after their requests for a salary increase were rejected.
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