In the latest indication that the slump in sales of Apple's most recent batch of iPhones isn't a transitory trend, Nikkei Asia Review on Friday reported that Foxconn, one of Apple's biggest and most important iPhone suppliers, is cutting seasonal staff more swiftly than in previous years, a sign that it is bracing for weak sales in the months ahead as the industry suffers its worst downturn in 10 years.
Normally, the 50,000 contract workers who have been let go at Foxconn's most important factory in Zhengzhou would have been kept around for a few more months, as the manufacturer gradually reduced its employee head count.
The report comes after Apple announced plans to cut iPhone production for the second time in two months.
Around 50,000 contract workers have been let go since October at Foxconn Technology Group's most important iPhone factory at Zhengzhou, in China's Henan Province, according to an industry source familiar with the situation. Normally, the contracts of these workers would be renewed every month from August until mid- to late January, when the workforce is traditionally scaled back for the slow iPhone production season.
The depth of the cuts isn't deeper than in previous years, it's just happening much earlier than expected, as many workers were asked to leave before year-end as expectations for holiday sales slumped.
hahahaha !!!….. as you already know, The NSA can monitor you on a flip phone just as effectively as they can monitor you on a smartphone……………………….
By using a flip phone, you are not going incognito or flying under the radar………
You don't seem to realize that although you use a flip phone, you jump on your computer to warn people not to use smartphones, thereby putting yourself dead square in the NSA internet funnel
If you want to remain unmonitored, you cannot go online at all………………………
your flip phone gives them your name, your payment method, your phone calls, your texts, your location, your schedule
your computer gives them your internet history, so you haven't prevented them from accessing ANYTHING……………
Oliver Rogers
Right now you remind me of somebody who spends his days and nights repeatedly telling people the dangers of milk, warning them not to purchase milk in any form…….
While you eat butter and yogurt and cheese
Evan Brooks
I've told you over and over again, smartphones hold A LOT more personal data because they are basically computers that log EVERYTHING.
With flip phones all they log is GPS and caller ID. Some of the older ones not even GPS.
Eli Wood
I don't use these spyphones, I only have an old flip phone without internet access! All it logs is caller IDs. Sure the NSA has the calls, even if I used an old rotary phone they still would!!
Caleb Nelson
The point of flip phones is you don't have to worry about all the internet logs and data, facial recognition, fingerprint data , GPS tracking and all the other garbage those botnets collect.
With a flip phone, the only logs someone would see (if they stole your phone) would be who you called and who called you. THATS IT. Caller ID logs. So I don't give spooks much compromising info do I? Nope. No pictures, no internet logs, camera covered-up and they can scroll through the caller ID logs if they really wanted to, big deal. OH, and did I mention Big Tech industry BTFO!
Wyatt Morales
Wanting people not to use smartphones while you are on a computer makes absolutely no sense.
I realize you have convinced yourself that you use subversive surreptitious techniques to prevent the NSA and other agencies from monitoring you and identifying you….
Unfortunately that's not true
There's nothing you can do to prevent them from monitoring and identifying you. There is no technology or diversionary technique that the computer experts at the NSA aren't familiar with.
There is no VPN or IP Switcher or mirror or encryption or Tor connection that they don't already know about and have successfully defeated already.
And if you think being on a computer (as opposed to a smartphone) gives you a special ability to prevent the interception and storage of your internet activities, once again you would be sadly mistaken.
You can utilize all of the same exact vpns etc etc on a smartphone.
Just because it's a smartphone doesn't mean you can't access the same subversive surreptitious evasion techniques that you THINK work on your computer….
To be honest, if you wanted to prevent them from monitoring you, you would need to start warning people with smoke signals…
You would need to use a pen and paper…
You would need to walk around using sign language
But if you are going to use ANY electronic communication, you are being monitored.
Jayden Gonzalez
HAHAHAHAHA !!!!
Do you actually think they can't get your location from a flip phone?
You've got to be kidding me, right?
William Harris
Whatever compromising info You Think You Are preventing them from accessing by using a flip phone….. you are allowing them to access by doing your most suspicious behavior on a goddamn computer
Hunter Sanders
NEVER SAID THAT. NEVER.
"The point of flip phones is you don't have to worry about all the internet logs and data, facial recognition, fingerprint data , GPS tracking and all the other garbage those botnets collect.
With a flip phone, the only logs someone would see (if they stole your phone) would be who you called and who called you. THATS IT. Caller ID logs. So I don't give spooks much compromising info do I? Nope. No pictures, no internet logs, camera covered-up and they can scroll through the caller ID logs if they really wanted to, big deal. OH, and did I mention Big Tech industry BTFO!"
