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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Rapidly Going Deaf > This American Life
 
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Boxman
Sep 27, 2004

Big fan of :frog:

jxfallout posted:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

It even says for this week's episode, "MP3 AVAILABLE SUNDAY 7PM", which would explain why the podcast isn't yet available (I have no idea when they started airing it on radio though).

For a less emotional, but still utterly fascinating, look at the electronics work that's going overseas, check out this New York Times article.

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Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
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