Inside Apple’s Eroding Partnership With Foxconn

Does anyone have the full article? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-eroding-partnership-with-foxconn "When Apple’s 2018 iPad Pro was undergoing production trials at the company’s largest outside manufacturer, Foxconn Technology, the Taiwanese firm gave Apple a list of how many workers it needed to develop the new product. That was standard procedure for Foxconn, whose factories across China have been responsible for assembling the vast majority of Apple’s hardware for nearly two decades. But as was often the case, Foxconn exaggerated its count. Foxconn didn’t hire as many workers as it told Apple it needed, according to two former Foxconn employees who helped manage the Apple projects and negotiated Foxconn’s billings with Apple representatives. It wasn’t the first time Foxconn did this, say numerous Foxconn employees. The manufacturer has routinely asked Apple for a higher head count than required, as Foxconn has tried to eke out more profit or win new lines of business from Apple to boost its razor-thin margins." #hardware #Apple #foxconn

Inside Apple's Eroding Partnership With Foxconn

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