Foxconn started trial production of 55-inch Apple TV

Apple goes to unleash its own "smart" tv - it had been one amongst the last strategic steerage of the late Steve Jobs. True, the "Apple" company tradition is silent. just one interview Apple business executive Tim Cook same the corporate fascinated by this market, that is "an imperative want for one thing new."

According to Monday Focus Taiwan, on partner American manufacturer - the company Foxconn - started trial production of tv Apple. Diagonal audition device is fifty 5 inches.

Previously rumored. iTV is that the "initial test", but it's unlikely that Apple will square measure delivered inside the subsequent year. Cupertino plan to gift some product related to TV, as a part of the customer electronics Show in January, but that this could be is not known.

Also, keep with the source, Apple goes to enter the market with TVs from 46 in. to 55 inches, which suggests that the company does not can vie with the large-size models. Perhaps, instead, the developers commit to bring one factor new, focusing on the center phase of the market.

Earlier, associate analyst with Piper Jaffray has discovered a forecast for Apple product in 2013. Consultants believe that the long-awaited brand TV is on the market within the fall. Thus, knowledgeable Peter Maysek writes down: "iTV Prototypes are ready. The key innovation is also a voice and gesture management, and a brand new user interface. "

Assembling the iPhone and the iPad - still "sweatshops"

Corporation Apple, has repeatedly been criticized for poor working conditions in factories in China, failed to improve the situation of workers collecting iPhone and iPad. This is the conclusion of British journalists publication The Guardian, which published a detailed account of the lives of employees of factories Foxconn.

 

In the course of inspections by observers found that bullying, physical exhaustion and violation of labor rights are the norm for hundreds of thousands of collectors iPhone. This is despite the fact that Apple has doubled its efforts to improve their working conditions.

According to the newspaper, interviews with 170 employees Foxconn in Shenzhen and Zhengzhou have confirmed that the penalties are the basic tools of management plants Foxconn. The report, prepared by human rights group "Students and scholars against corporate violations," says the workers tenth largest employer in the world makes cleaning toilets, sweeping lawns and write "letters of repentance," which are then placed on a bulletin board, or read their colleagues.

Living conditions in hostels Foxconn are terrible. In the two-bedroom living rooms of 20 to 30 people. They were forbidden under pain of confiscation of using energy efficient electrical appliances such as kettles and laptops.

Among the improvements in human rights defenders noted that some collectors have provided chairs. Previously, most of them had to work standing up. But even the workers are allowed to sit on the edge of his chair, so they do not "relax" and did their job well.

The report also indicates a high level of trauma workers in the factories. Another problem - the 12-hour working day, and even more. In an interview, chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook has assured that the company is taking measures to reduce the number of working hours. A company spokeswoman repeated earlier statements that Apple cares about each of its employees worldwide. However, as the newspaper writes, the efforts of one of the most popular brands of the world have not yielded tangible results.

[Rumor] Foxconn increases production for the launch of the iPhone 5 to June

The famous Japanese blog Macotakara reported, in the day today, a news outlet by the TV World Business Satellite of Tokyo, in which a manager of Foxconn said the company is ready to take on 18,000 new employees to support the production of 'iPhone 5 .

After the launch of the new iPad we talk earnestly of the next generation iPhone which, after the iPhone 4S, everyone expects to finally be revolutionary. According to some news from Asia, Foxconn would be ready to take thousands of new workers to speed the production of the next iPhone 5 .

Also according to Japanese TV, in fact, the new device from Apple, contrary to early forecasts, will not see the light in autumn, but before the summer, you will be presented in June . What seems strange about this news, Foxconn is that an employee may be aware of these precise details on the strategy of Apple , although Foxconn is the leading provider of Cupertino and, therefore, is often in close contact with those that define the plans launch of new products under the brand name of the apple.

In any case, although the news of the launch of the new iPhone before the summer had already been suggested by some sources, a range of only 8, 9 months after the debut of the iPhone 4S may seem very low for the cycle of life and development Usually Apple products . We'll see what happens over the next few months. by