Josh Ong
Carolyn Wu, a spokeswoman for the Cupertino, Calif., company, told Bloomberg in an e-mail on Thursday that Cook had stopped by the new facility. Foxconn employs 120,000 people at the factory, according to Wu.
Cook was first spotted in China at a local Apple store earlier in the week. The company then confirmed that he had been meeting with Chinese officials.
"China is very important to us and we look forward to even greater investment and growth here," the company said.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that state media showed Cook meeting with Vice Premier Li Keqiang to discuss "intellectual-property issues and greater cooperation."
The executive's visit to an iPhone production line comes as Apple has come under fire for working conditions at its suppliers' factories. A series of reports on Apple and Foxconn earlier this year stirred up a debate about labor rights in China.
Cook reportedly called allegations that Apple had been aware of rights abuses for years without doing anything about them "patently false and offensive." "We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain," he said in a letter to employees.
Apple CEO Tim Cook touring an iPhone production line at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, China, via MIC Gadget.
The ensuing media frenzy was temporarily exacerbated by false claims by monologue artist Mike Daisey that were aired on the popular radio show "This American Life." The program later retracted the episode after Daisey admitted to having made up large parts of his story. The artist has since apologized to his audiences for violating their trust.
Earlier this year, Apple announced that it had become the first technology company to join the Fair Labor Association. Though the company performs its own audits for its Supplier Responsibility group, it has engaged the FLA to independently verify working conditions at its partner's facilities.
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Apple is showing them selves to be a company that has accountability not only for it's employees and their rights/ care but for the environment.
Other companies usually either follow or try to discredit Apple.
And yes there are those of you here that will critique my ability to spell or punctuate my sentences. Please understand that I suffer from a brain injury and at times struggle to post in a manner that only you the elevated critic can and will point out; my flaws. Ah yes and the famous troll thought as well. Have I covered everything?
I will point out that the factories that build Apple products are not run by Apple. The factory workers are employees of other companies like Foxconn (Hon Hai), Pegatron, etc.
Your ability to spell or punctuate is not in question. Your understanding of Apple's business operations is.
Apple can be concerned about workers of their worldwide supply chain, but they aren't Apple employees. Their paychecks don't say Apple. Note that these same manufacturing contractors supply products to Apple's competitors (Nokia, Dell, HP, RIMM, etc.).
Please stay on topic and try avoid turning this into a TrollFest 2012.
Thank you.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that state media showed Cook meeting with Vice Premier Li Keqiang to discuss "intellectual-property issues and greater cooperation."
Vice Premier Li Keqiang also received a $10,000 Apple gift card for being more flexible on the issue of Proview. It seems the Proview owner has suddenly taken up a new hobby; building roads mostly by hand in the most rural areas of China.
Apple is showing them selves to be a company that has accountability not only for it's employees and their rights/ care but for the environment.
Other companies usually either follow or try to discredit Apple.
And yes there are those of you here that will critique my ability to spell or punctuate my sentences. Please understand that I suffer from a brain injury and at times struggle to post in a manner that only you the elevated critic can and will point out; my flaws. Ah yes and the famous troll thought as well. Have I covered everything?
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Dude, no need to explain yourself. Your post is better and more intelligent than most here.......mine included!
If any others post otherwise, just use your option to ignore.
BTW, the thought behind your post is spot-on.
Ditto.