http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/ Engadget Comments for Apple confirms and expresses sadness over death of Chinese iPhone prototype handler http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
Int he future, when Apple has its own air force, KIRF maker
s will get hit with AIR STRIKES.]]>Jul 21st 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
1. Apple tries to keep product launches as secret as possible.
2. Intense secrecy leads to a scarcity of information about highly desired Apple products.
3. Scarcity leads to increased demand.
4. Increased demand yields a high dollar value on any information regarding upcoming Apple products.
5. Prototype iPhone "goes missing".
6. Prototype handler is "interrogated".
7. Prototype handler commits suicide as a result of the interrogation.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
The same company, Foxconn, its been found to abuse an employee to the point of suicide on Apple's behalf. Shame on Apple; the new Sith of tech companies.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/06/12/ipod_city_inside_apples_ipod_factories.html
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/06/20/apple_begins_audit_on_ipod_sweatshop_claims.html]]>Jul 22nd 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
And we're to blame, too. If we didn't read this stuff, they wouldn't print it. But we do. We are all responsible for consuming rumors, gossip, and dirt. Maybe if we cared more about feeding the poor or climate change, rumors wouldn't be a commodity. But we don't.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
This is clearly a tragic case, no doubt. But you have to live with stuff like that, you can't save the world, you can support the world. Pay a monthly fee to charity, shut down your computer if you care that much about the environment instead of giving freaking blogs the blame. It's to damn easy.

If it's not Foxconn, it's Apple, if it's not Apple it's the world - but everything is still run by humans including you Jimmy!

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This is a tragedy, to be sure, but if any company has responsibility, it's FoxConn. And if the allegations of abuse and interrogation turn out to be true, Apple must hold FoxConn accountable or switch vendors.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
"孙丹勇主要负责富士康公司Apple iPhone第四代N90的导入"]]>Jul 22nd 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/]]>Jul 21st 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
It's also fitting that all the Fanboi rags including the gadget blogs are putting on kid gloves when approaching the Apple angle of this story peddling that cold Press Release with no follow up questions. If this happened to Sony or heavens forbid Microsoft I can imagine a slew of Photo-shopped Ballmer pics screaming at or decapitating an Asian guy along with heavy dose of Faux Outrage.

Seriously, they "interrogated" the poor guy over a shiny plastic product? WTF. This company and those that enable and rationalize its BS "secrecy" schtick need to take a long walk off a short cliff. ]]>Jul 22nd 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
According to Shanghaiist’s translation, what drove him to jump to his death from a 12-story building was the torture he was going through at the hands of Foxconn security.

Is that not clear enough for you? Should we use smaller words? IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH APPLE.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
Stop being such a douche, if this had been a Microsoft product people would be all over Microsoft and you know it.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 24th 2009 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
ummm, selling stuff every few years is called "Business"

It's what these "businesses" do.

If Apple hadn't innovated or sold anything since PowerPC's they'd no longer be a "business".

Would you fault Microsoft if they stayed at Windows ME? Or maybe we should have stayed with MS-DOS, because then nobody would have to buy anything new. Perhaps Minux should still be the kernel for Ubuntu?

Innovation is good. Innovation for the sake of innovation is not. Blu-Ray has not really taken off, and probably never will. I have a Blu-Ray player, and I use it to stream Netflix more than I watch Blu-Rays. I own a couple dozen Blu-Rays, and have the Netflix Blu-Ray plan. I also do hi-def downloads, and more and more people do.

The difference between VHS and DVD was staggering. Quality and convenience of DVD were magnitudes above VHS. The step from DVD to Blu-Ray is much smaller, and the movies cost at least double. Prices may come down, but it's too late. Hi-Def downloads are the future.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/
That's such crap. Blu-Ray is what people want to be able to burn their newer content onto. Macs are used the most in media production... as in: HD video content (amongst other things). Yet, there's no options for a Blu-Ray drive. Just because you prefer to download bootleg movies doesn't mean that's what everyone does. Some of us have large, nice, 1080p televisions and need disc-based content that actually gets everything out of the tech it harbors. You can't get the same content from downloads. You don't get the special features, you don't get the full 1080p, you don't get all of the audio or subtitle options. Computer hardware manufacturers are supposed to at least *offer* the bigger-better-thing for those with the money to spend. If you don't offer what's actually pretty popular in your industry and you stick with the old stuff because you don't "like" the format, you're hurting those customers that rely on you to offer them the best.

Calling it "too late" for a format that's been gaining popularity steadily is just asinine. Get a 46" 1080p tv (or look at one in a store) playing a recent Blu-Ray disc and then try watching one of your 720p (or MASSIVE 1080i) downloaded videos and you'd see the difference.

Also, saying that they're double the price is wrong. Just incorrect. A new release DVD is usually around the $17 mark while the two-disc version with all of the special features is around $25. A new release Blu-Ray is usually about $27 when released side-by-side with the same movie on DVD. The Blu-Ray versions of these movies include usually the same (if not *more*) content while offering a noticeable bump in picture quality (again, with a decent tv of course). So, you're looking at $2 more for a Blu-Ray with at least as much content as a two-disc DVD version of a film. Just because they don't offer a stripped-down version doesn't mean that it's more expensive than its DVD counterpart, it just means that it's aimed at those who have spent the money on a compatible player and tv... those would usually be called enthusiasts. Just like when DVD first came out and they were priced higher than their VHS brethren.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/R.I.P. FF.
R.I.P. Prototype Handler.

I can't believe this thing went out of control this bad. Granted, I'm sure the guy had emotional problems of his own and this just sent him over the edge, but still, there had to have been at least one guy who thought, "Oh, shit, he might actually kill himself." I'm still very confused about this: Torture and illegal searches and the like are certainly horrible actions and Apple should be punished for them, but then again, he did lose a prototype for a phone that could have affected Apple's iPhone sales immensely.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 22nd 2009 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.theage.com.au/technology/biz-tech/terrified-chinese-iphone-worker-kills-himself-after-prototype-misplaced-20090722-dsl8.html]]>Jul 21st 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-confirms-expresses-sadness-over-death-of-chinese-iphone-p/Jul 21st 2009 11:42PM