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From: Moonray	11/5/2012 9:02:52 AM
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The Crowd At Apple's New Store Near Foxconn Chants: 'Apple! Apple! Apple!' Apple opened a store in Shenzhen, the city where Foxconn employs hundreds of thousands of people to make iPhones, iPads and other American designed gadgets. Fortune's Philip Elmer-Dewitt found this video from the opening. After reading and hearing so much about how Foxconn workers, it's a little startling to hear the people in line at the new store chant "Apple! Apple! Apple!" and wave around expensive iPads and iPhones. As DeWitt reminds us, one of the most poignant details in Apple critic Mike Daisey's (now partially debunked) account of Foxconn was how his working iPad was the first some Foxconn employees had ever seen. Daisey is now saying this was because the iPad was not being sold in China at the time. But his implication was that Foxconn workers were too impoverished to ever even encounter such expensive gadgets. That implication now seems false. Read more: businessinsider.com o~~~ O

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