So, Apple’s market capitalization has passed that of old guard Microsoft. At the same time, they’re investigating a spate of suicides at one of the Asian megafactories that supplies their hardware, and they’re about to get hit with the same sort of anti-trust lawsuits that dogged Bill Gates and company over the last decade [via SlashDot].
Many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip, I guess…
The “spate” of suicides is actually a statistically normal number of suicides. See. In fact, Foxconn workers are roughly as likely to commit suicide as anyone in China (maybe less so). They sound like a lot, but the underlying working population is very large.
Hard to shake the feeling that people getting riled about these deaths are trying to manipulate you.
That’s kinda where I was going with it, Dave; there was a big push against Google last year, but they really struggled to make things stick and (I suspect) decided to turn to easier meat. The price of success is extra enemies. 🙂
Fair point, but I think repeating dubious claims like this has an information-cascade effect that tends to make people believe them.
Sometimes they must be mentioned anyway, but in such cases I think it’s important to point out that they are questionable.