Apple iPhone 7 Vs. Chinese employers: “buy local or get fired”
The Apple iPhone 7 is by all means a seriously advanced piece of equipment: while it goes without saying that it is the thinnest yet, among all its predecessors (it seriously goes without saying it), it also features a processor, the A10 Fusion, which has been benchmarked to rival the MacBook Air, within context, of course.
The camera hardware on the iPhone 7 is a double-whammy for the serious-casual photographer, with a wide-angle and a telephoto lens bundled up into one advanced system capable of taking pictures where effects traditionally hard to render with traditional hardware, like bokeh, can be edited after taking a photo.
There is a laundry list of reasons to want an iPhone 7, and a longer list to want the iPhone 7 Plus, unless you are in China, where buying an iPhone 7 can apparently get you fired.
According to BBC News, letters are being circulated among workers in several companies in China, with stern warnings against buying the Apple iPhone 7, under penalty of immediate termination.
Variations on the same policy originated with Nanyang Yongkang Medicine Company, which has allegedly begun the anti-Apple campaign as a way to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the 1931 attack of Northeast China by the imperial Japanese troops.
By that token, Chinese companies have begun taking a stance against the import and purchase of foreign products, with a rather heavy focus on Apple products, most likely to make an example of one of the most popular tech companies worldwide.
There is only one small caveat into this plan: Apple, Microsoft, and plenty more foreign companies employ massive numbers of Chinese workers, in factories that are run and operated in the chinese mainland, where the Chinese government gets its fair share of tax profits.
Foxconn, for one, is one major factory plant for Apple products, among other facilities in Kunshan, Shanghai, Lianyungang, and Changshu, where Apple hardware is tested and manufactured.
Should these factories shut down, the repercussions for Apple in the US would pale in comparison to the loss of steady employment in China for workers, and the consequences for their families. With over 1.6 million people being employed worldwide by Apple, a boycott to the scale suggested by Chinese companies, is hardly good news for Chinese workers, especially those employed by foreign companies.
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