Eight suicide attempts seen at iPhone manufacturer in Q1 2010
Already 8 new suicide attempts among the iPhone manufacturers at Foxconn in Cina in 2010. Six attempts have been successful. Its most publicized such death came in 2009 when a worker,
Sun Danyong, 25,
jumped off his dormitory roof after losing one device out of a set of iPhone prototypes
Sure losing one iPhone prototype might not strike you as a big deal... well China is one big place where Apple goons can enforce company policy on employees without being mediatized - or so they thought.
According to the reports, Sun was given 16 prototypes by his superior. A few days later, Sun could account only 15 of them and reported about the missing iPhone to his higher-ups on July 13th. It is alleged that some Apple security employees searched Danyong’s apartment illegally, detained and even physically abused Sun.
Going back on this old story(2009) makes no sense since a lot has been written about the first uncovered iPhone suicide and instead of repeating all this I’d rather like to refer you to
Perspective on the iPhone Suicide, written by Jason Chen
(the guy in who's house Apple just broke in to - great coincidence) on Gizmodo.
However if you live in the US, where the press has every company under a spyglass 24/7 and your work place does not resemble to a concentration camp, you can afford to play drama queen:
Gray Powell's father: 'He was devastated'.
So yes, it's ok to lose
the million dollar prototype while you're getting drunk as long as you are a fat f*ck with an US citizenship. Take care Gary, people get run over by cars, mugged and shot in dark alleys for a fistful of bucks every day and get "devastated" for good; we wouldn't want for something bad to come to you, if you get our drift.
But as Apple never forgets, and the same Jason Chen had "the luck" of recovering the lost iPhone for no less than 5000 US dollars, returning it was useless as Apple declared the prototype stolen. The San Mateo police reached the front door of Gizmodo's editor and blasted through it with an illegal search warrant, as part of the investigation, and took three MacBooks, one iPad, one iPhone, three external USB drives, Motorola A855, IBM ThinkPad, two Dell desktop PCs, HP MediaSmart server, two digital cameras, three USB sticks and more.
According to Gawker Media
the search warrant is invalid, because the Californian law protects the journalist's source. But we guess Apple probably used a tiny little trick called
bribery to go above the law and find the guy who found the prototype and get even with Gizmodo since unlike
Engadget.com and
GSMArena(more like AppleArena), they are one of the few technology sites that wasn't "bought" by Apple... yet.
But wait! This doesn't just end here!
A ridiculous race is going on in the world of smartphones, with each competitor boasting about the number of available apps for his platform. Apple is talking about 200.000 apps, similar to Symbian and probably what Palm used to offer in earlier years. As a software developer and user I'm having a hard time believing the programming upsurge Apple is talking about. It is high time to debunk the app numbers craze as a high number of apps reflects the shortcomings of a platform as much as its mass market success. 
According to the reports, Sun was given 16 prototypes by his superior. A few days later, Sun could account only 15 of them and reported about the missing iPhone to his higher-ups on July 13th. It is alleged that some Apple security employees searched Danyong’s apartment illegally, detained and even physically abused Sun.
