Robotic Apple Assemblers Ping!
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Foxconn has been talking about doing this for at least four years. Mostly because robots can produce repeated operations with great precision and you don’t have to deal with labor issues, either.
LOL. A company complaining about wages in China.
Cue the music video apple ad with hipsters waving flags as lyrics blare promising fun for the children.
this could be the next ‘leapfrog’ that bring production back to USA
we started mass production.
unions made production to expensive here
production went overseas
overseas costs are getting up there now...
robotic production can be made here (seriously , you don’t WANT to send robots there... they have a billion people that would be out of work)
Talking points
- apple employs virtual slaves in China making iPhones
- apple will layoff workers in China making iPhones
- therefore, apple’s layoff of workers is a good thing, because it reduces the number of slave laborers it keeps.
Robots can work here just as efficiently...............
They’ll definitely treat the robots better, and they’ll probably get better pay. lol
If they’re gonna use robots to assemble the components, I’d think Apple would be better served to ‘insource’ that process, and build their own factory here in the US that’s full of robots. They’d save money all around, by cutting out the middle man, no costs involved with international shipping, and they wouldn’t have the huge labor costs that companies usually have in the US because they’re using robots. They WILL need some tech workers to maintain and oversee the robots, but not very many.
The robots are coming! The drones! They’re watching our every move! The bosses will punish us and make us pay! LOL!
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“Foxconn Layoffs: Apple Supplier to Downsize Workforce [Desire to replace workers with robots]”
Anyone considered doing this to our congresscritters?
After all,a few hundred functional transistors will fully replace most of ‘em.
And Pelosi, Whorehouse Harry, Boxer, and Feinstein could be adequately modeled by a simple resistor.
Oh, Bonehead and McDorkell would require only a putrid day old pile of shi....er...Obamastuff.
Manufacturing jobs are never coming back to America. The first step was shifting the jobs overseas to take advantage of lower costs. The next step will be fully automating the manufacturing process with robotics.
By the way, we really need to come up with more modern terminology than "robot."
"Robot" sounds too much like bad 1950s science fiction.
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By the way, for those only a little technically inclined, far better products can be bought and used for next to nothing. Not all rich folks are monopolists bent on stampeding the herds with tales of robots and global disaster fiction. Some have really turned out to be great benefactors, helping many others to design many great, new tools.
You’re going to get the Apple paid social media trolls like swordmaker pissed at you for posting these things.
Child labor is expensive and so are those suicide nets....