Apple Returns Millions of Defective iPhone 5 Smartphones
Apple returns 5-8 million defective iPhone 5 smartphones to its foreign manufacturer, Foxconn.
Have you ever bought a new phone and realized it's broken, having to return it and causing you inconvenience? Apple gets returns from customers, but now it's had to do some returns of its own. The Taiwanese manufacturer, Foxconn, who supplies Apple with its iPhone 5 devices, has received between 5 and 8 million iPhones back from Apple with a complaint concerning sub-standard manufacturing quality.
The agreement between Apple and its outsourced manufacturer allegedly states that a 90 percent quality rate is required (meaning only 1 out of 10 iPhones are allowed to be broken). However, Foxconn has only been able to achieve an 80 percent quality rating; therefore, they are having to refund Apple for all the sub-standard phones. As each phone has an estimate labor cost of around $200 USD, Foxconn is losing around 1.6 billion Yaun ($257 million USD) in revenue to fix the iPhones for Apple.
This news, together with the fact that Foxconn has recently declared its worst revenue statistics in over ten years, could mean that Foxconn might not be Apple's preferred manufacturer for much longer. With a speculated launch of a new iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 coming out, we hope that problems associated with the iPhone 5, such a light leaking between the screen and antennae and the use of substandard aluminum, will not be present on the release of Apple's next big phone.

"Your holding them wrong"
Anyways, there goes another myth (Apple's flawless manufacturing). It's just another manufacturer, nothing special.
Anyways, there goes another myth (Apple's flawless manufacturing). It's just another manufacturer, nothing special.
"Your holding them wrong"
If they are using the "lowest bidder", I think what the price of the iPhone would be if they went with someone more expensive.
What are you smoking? Foxconn had NT $100B ($3.6B USD) in profits last year, which is a record HIGH.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57576228-37/apple-supplier-foxconn-has-record-profit/
If they are using the "lowest bidder", I think what the price of the iPhone would be if they went with someone more expensive.
It shouldn't actually even be this bad, apple has a much higher markup than other companies.
Um, it's called private business, you're supposed to consider all costs and benefits, and go with the lowest bidder. Otherwise you're just a terrible businessman, not that there's anything wrong with that of course. Personally I would say this further proves Apple's new management's inadequacies when compared to the Jobs era.
I know circuit boards were made by robots in the 80's probably a lot of robotics going back to the first microprocessor.. Their couldn't be more than 15 man minutes of labor in one of those. Perhaps those Chinese workers are making $800 an hour.
so who's at fault?
The beatings will continue until product quality improves.
Thank you,
Mgmt
"Your holding them wrong"
Try "You're holding them wrong"... Sigh
English is my second language and I can get that...
Joke's getting old, fandroids need to get better material for trolling.
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