It looks like Apple might be regretting trying to choke the supply of its iPhone 5 to artificially create a buzz about a product which is the same as the last one.
That cunning plan depended on the company being able to bring out lots of new ones when the buzz had ramped up enough. However it looks like something has gone wrong behind the bamboo curtain.
Reports coming in this morning from China suggest that a mass disturbance or riots may have broken out at a Foxconn factory in the Chinese city of Taiyuan.
According to NBC, posts on China's popular twitter-like service, Weibo, show photographs and video of large numbers of police in riot gear around the factory blocking off throngs of people.
Debris is strewn around the Foxconn compound and in one case, an overturned guard tower.
It was all started when Foxconn security guards hit a worker last night. Chinese censors have been frantically been deleting pictures from the scene.
This is the second time that there has been a mass disturbance at the plant. In March, strikes broke out there after workers did not receive a pay raise they had reportedly been promised.
Foxconn's Chengdu plant in Sichuan province also has also seen rioting. In June, scores of Foxconn workers there got into a fight with a local restaurant owner that had to be broken up by police.
It seems that rioting could be the only way that workers can get management at the plant to listen to them.
The company dealt with a string of suicides at its plants across China, which led to the company in 2010 installing anti-jump nets to prevent more suicide attempts.
With a news blackout in the region it is hard to say what effect this will have on the supply of the iPhone 5. The plant makes the backplate for the shiny toy.
Apple recently carried out a review of the Foxconn operation and while conditionally giving the outfit a clean bill of health, it shifted iPad production to Pegatron.
Meaning O Vision of The Cloudy? Meaning that when a human is driven from being The Living to being The Living but Dead, the step towards being The Stone Dead will not be that far away. Then, like a spark to dry tinder, any old excusable [or inexcusable in the case of Control Freakism] will start a fire. And this is what the hoo-ha in this report is about, the cunning within Apple being limited to maintaining its control freak course realise through the abandonment of its victims.
The concept of Capitalism, oka Abandoment, is merely having the freedom to be nonsensical whereas the concept of Communism/Socialism, oka Control, is merely lacking the freedom to be sensible. Half-full being half-empty, regardless of what psychedelic-dark colours Chosen Fewry is trying to paint, the aim is to make the pain infinite.
Within The Material realm, everything is Of The Limit. Inspite zillionaires failing to count beyond their toes other than throwing zeroes at their affliction, Mercy & Compassion will ensure that the problem will end. And so too are those caged by their "Karma" or whatever excuse that is going for The Intellect - with one infinite proviso - which is that refracted within all true humans is a system based not only on Infinity, it also has the potential of being realised via self [but never via another/others]. This, then, is the true freedom which is unlimited because it is of self. The problem then is how to see it and then perhaps opting for it. Not when one is already chosen, of course, by none other than one's own self-limit vacuously imagined as being privileged, special, talented, entitled and royal too. For those who are ready to choose because they had been awakened [partially or fully] from their state of mesmerism, all that is needed then is to be Pure within Desire. To relinquishing Other and choosing Self/Reality unlike most when they, 11 times out of 10, looked into the mirror and seeing only The Other.
Treat your workforce with respect, pay them a fair wage and continue your business. At this time people need to BOYCOT all Apple products. These types of corporations need to get hammered in the pocket book in order from them to change.
Also Capitalism is O.K. and a lot better than other systems. The only issue I have with it is the constant year by year de-regulation making the Rich richer and the middle class poorer. So in that sense, Capitalism becomes "Vulture Capitalism".