Sure, it’s all “fake”. It’s foxcon with Apple logo.
Foxconn doesn’t design the phone they build it. I’m a mechanical design engineer with 20 years experience, that has been to many similar factories of large contract manufacturers across china and several other countries for my products, where we were teaching them and fixing the loads of issues in their manufacturing process. We often also designed the fixtures and tools for manufacturing too. I wager strongly you don’t know what you’re talking about
You were teaching them, provided them the tools and they still refuse to stay the cheap uneducated labour you hoped to get. Hmmmm
I wager strongly that you DO know what you’re taking about, but in a very specific narrowband.
My complaints are that we had to do everything for them. Not that they refused to stay cheap and uneducated, but you push your agenda. Also they would lie and forge data and cheat at everything. Part of the reason that company doesn’t do business with china anymore. Now in another job where everything is made in the US and Germany where those issues don’t exist and it’s much better.
Is 2.5m even worth apples time?
For reference, Apple currently has roughly 70 billion USD as cash on hands. 2.5 million USD is 0.0035% of their cash reserves.
If you have a yearly salary of 50k USD, that would be equivalent to losing 1.78 USD.
I am bad at math, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
If you want to do less math you can just drop some zeroes and say it’s the same as making $70k while losing $2.50
Or make $7000 while losing a quarter. Or to bring it to wallet-level, making $7 while losing one-fourth of a penny.
Since the scammers spoofed the ID numbers of real phones, it is quite possible that real customers will be affected bu this, so I wonder what will happen if a real customer who has issues with their real phone that had it’s ID stolen and needs help…
As an American, makes me think of real dollars backed by silver and gold and then everything else that’s been printed and printed and printed (and printed) since the 70’s. Same manufacturer.
The gold standard is a myth anyway. You can’t actually get that gold even if you do have an original dollar. The number of times it’s been reprinted doesn’t matter.
The US isn’t backed by gold anymore the Euro was backed by the Dollar. Every currency is simply backed by that country’s economy, that’s why you get hyperinflation in countries with civil unrest or war.
“These counterfeit phones, Cohen said, were either out of warranty or contained counterfeit parts, but Apple “wrongly” believed that they were real phones under real warranties”
So not counterfeit. Just real iPhones that were out of warranty or has been repaired by a third party.
real phones with counterfeit parts resulting from third party repairs doesn’t seem that surprising given how restrictive apple is about providing authentic repair parts. i would not be surprised if this turns out to be another case of them shooting themselves in the foot because they got too greedy.
They truly are a ridiculous company. If they were a bit more open about their Macs I would buy one, but they aren’t so I don’t.
Their desire nickel and dime people as much as possible ultimately ends up in the earning less money. Meanwhile every small computer shop on the planet sells Windows computers.
