Mike Daisey, creator and star of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” talks about his admiration for Steve Jobs and what led him to create a critical two-hour monologue that explores the human cost of Apple's global supply chain, and the ultimate price of the iPhones, iPads, and iPods so many people have. “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” is playing at the Public Theater through November 13.
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Why is it called Foxconn?
http://www.romania-insider.com/nokia-closes-down-romanian-factory-until-end-2011-in-restructuring-move/35824/#
Read all about Nokia closing down the factory in Cluj, Romania and the number of people being put out of work.
Mike Daisey is wrong that everyone is doing it like Apple, Nokia has been doing it right for years now.
Nokia is the top ranked electronics brand by Greenpeace despite this fact they sell 6 times as many handsets as Apple does and make their phones in the European Union where labor and environmental standards are even stricter than the US.
Nokia doesn't keep the public out of their factories, they tout it and show it off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVwC9KYhdE
Nokia's current offerings are obsolete, it remains to be seen if their new Windows Mobile products will compete, but Apple's outsourcing to the lowest bidder is not the only viable option. It certainly isn't leading or "thinking different".
Apple is on par with Dell who sells around 20-30 units for every unit Apple does and yet Apple can't do any better than them with the larger margins they have on their niche products?
Its also important to note around the same time Jobs took Apple over again (about a decade ago), Apple shifted production of their products from the US to Asia.
Since there is a fair chance (not sure) that the first time I heard of Mike Daisey was on 'forgotten but not gone's Steve Post and his 'No Show' ... I have to ask, how is Steve doing now?
What Lenny did not do is challenge Mike with tough questions like, who owns Foxconn, where it is located, and what country is actually responsible for the worker's conditions. Steve Jobs is and easy target because Dell, HP, etc...are not and certainly the government of The People's Republic Of China either.
After listening to Mike Daisey I'd like to know where the Eton radio is made.
An interesting paradox is evolving in the Asian labor market, regarding the iPhone, et al.
One of the major iPhone manufacturers will be replacing all those underpaid, overworked, assembly employees with robots!
Will that ameliorate our angst about buying Apple, and other electronic, devices?
so who makes the Eton radio that's being offered as a gift and what are their working conditions?
re: Foxconn. Keep talkin, brother.
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FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
what notes are on the pages? an outline, stage direction, topic, a first line, etc.
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