Aaron Sorkin has ripped Apple a new one with his criticism of the Chinese facility where iPhones are assembled, saying that they have children, making next to nothing, making iPhones.
Aaron Sorkin Rips Apple’s Tim Cook Over ‘Factory of Children in China Assembling Phones for 17 Cents an Hour’
“if you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
The problems at the Chinese factory, where Apple iPhones are assembled, is pretty well documented.
It seems that we are continually hearing new stories about the low pay, long hours, riots, suicide.
One Chinese worker, making Apple iPhones, allegedly died after working up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and we have read that around 18 people have killed themselves at the factory and dormitory.
One Chinese man named Xu Lizhi jumped out of the window at the Foxconn residential dormitory, and had written some poetry before he died that many believe is about his time working at the factory.
We ran along the railway,
arriving in some place called ‘the City’
where we trade in our youth, and our muscle.
Finally we have nothing to trade, only a cough
and a skeleton nobody cares about.
‘Sleepless’
Midnight. Everyone is sleeping soundly,
We keep our pair of young wounds open.
These black eyes, can you really lead us to the light?
‘Night Shift’
If all of the horrors we have read about the Apple iPhone assembly facility, Apple should be embarrassed and shunned by the American People for callously making money hand over fist off the lives of Chinese.
“If you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
Aaron Sorkin has lashed out at Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent assertion that filmmakers were being “opportunistic” in making films about the late tech titan Steve Jobs.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter during a press junket roundtable for Universal’s Danny Boyle-directed Steve Jobs in London, the writer claimed that he and those working at the top of the project had taken pay cuts to get it made.
“Nobody did this movie to get rich,” he said. “Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is.”
But Sorkin’s most stinging retort was reserved for last.
“Third, if you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
Starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet and Seth Rogen, Steve Jobs has been largely well-received following its world premiere in Telluride. It will be released in the U.S. on Oct. 9.
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