You, A Desert Island & Your iPod

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile more trouble for Apple on the labor front.

As Apple prepares to unveil its latest iPhone this week, the company’s manufacturing partner in China, Foxconn Technology, is coming under renewed criticism over labor practices. Foxconn has been accused of compelling vocational students to work at plants making iPhones and their components, report David Barboza and Charles Duhigg in Tuesday’s New York Times.

Additionally, last week Chinese state-run news media reported that several vocational schools in the city of Huai’an, in eastern China, required hundreds of students to work on assembly lines at a Foxconn plant to help ease worker shortages. According to one of the articles, Huai’an students were ordered to manufacture cables for Apple’s new iPhone 5, which is expected to be introduced on Wednesday.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/1 ... n-iphones/

[Davidokun]

let me reopen our longest thread ever by asking the most elemental of questions: how many people actually own iPods anymore?

Still have a fourth-generation, 60-GB Classic (Photo). Just barely enough capacity for my entire digital music library. Hadn't used it for a while, but started again recently.

When I'm home, I often use my computer to drive my stereo, and usually let iTunes make the selections. I carry the iPod in my backpack, along with a variety of interface cables, so I can do the same when I'm away from home.

Bought a new computer in August 2011. It was burgled in February 2012, so I reverted back to using my old computer. During the Olympics, my old computer died, so I whipped out my old iPod, and kept on truckin'.