It is an ancient link which is far from being a long, quiet river. Foxconn isApple's main supplier. In charge of assembling several products from the Cupertino company, he would be at the origin of60 to 70% of iPhonesmarketed this year. The company would achieve margins of around 9%, compared to 40% for the Apple brand. This gap would not be appreciated by the Taiwanese firm which would like to obtain more.
When Google employees visit a factory working on the 12-inch MacBook
Therefore, according to an investigation by The Information, it uses various strategies while not always respecting the promises made to the American company. Thus, the article cites the example of the manufacturing of the iPad Pro 2018. The supplier told Apple that it needed a certain number of workers to manufacture the new product, while exaggerating the count, with the result better results.
Even more troubling, Foxconn allegedly let Google employees visit a factory that made the metal frame for the 12-inch MacBook. Informed, Apple asked its subcontractor for security images and visit logs, but the latter refused to provide them.
Finally, the Taiwanese company would have used inactive factory equipment belonging to Apple to work with other clients and in particular Huawei, which, one can imagine, is surely not to the taste of the Cupertino company.
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