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The iPhone 5 Line Was Filled With Occupiers, Urban Campers, and Pro-Line Waiters
Standing outside the Apple's 5th Avenue Flagship store with Caitlin, Motherboard's press-savvy intern, I'm overcome by a contact high from sleep-deprived iPhone fanatics. The layers of sweat and dust, the jitteriness of the first dozen overnighters...
These People Put the "i" in Line
We checked out the line for the new iPhone 5, and all we found were a bunch of urban campers, pro-line waiters, and of course, Occupiers.
Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced to Build Your Next iPhone
*With an update* Now that Apple is putting the finishing touches on the most anticipated smartphone in history, Chinese students are again being pressed into service on the factory line inside the single largest internship program in the world.
"i" Is for Interns
A report in the Shanghai Daily says that hundreds of students in the city of Huai’an were recently forced to help fulfill iPhone 5 orders.
Why the iPad Has to be Made in China
The iPad’s light, sleek, simple construction belies its complex origins. There’s a lot of stuff in the iPad: aluminum and glass, of course, but also other heavy metals and toxic chemicals. And manufacturing each "1.44-pound iPad":http://www.google.com...
Mike Check: Reading Between the Lines of the Daisey Story
As an intern at the Believer in 2005, Jim Fingal was assigned to fact-check John D'Agata's article on the 2002 suicide of Las Vegas teenager Levi Presley. The article appeared in 2010, and the factchecking process forms the basis of the book "_The...
Mike Daisey, Kony and the Ecstasy and the Agony of Infotainment
Daisey’s partly fabricated story slipped in, and managed to slip past a fact checking gauntlet.
iPads Are Much Nicer To Make Than iPhones
Last September, Foxconn assembly line worker Li Qi (not his real name) moved from the iPad unit to iDPBG, where iPhones get put together. It was a temporary thing, just ahead of the Christmas rush, but he was excited. The move, reports the "First...
Foxconn is Under Inspection from a Labor Rights Group, at Apple's Request
The Fair Labor Association, a worldwide worker's rights nonprofit, is currently inspecting Apple's supply chain at the behest of the company, a press release sent out this morning stated. The inspections apparently started this morning at Foxconn's...
"Shirt" by Robert Pinsky
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break Or talking money or politics while one fitted This...