SURVEY – The very discreet Taiwanese group reigns supreme over the consumer electronics industry and is now expanding into the electric vehicle. But the practices of the giant with regard to its employees arouse controversy.
The images have taken over social networks. In mid-November, hundreds of people tried to flee one of Foxconn’s huge production sites in Shenzhen, southern China, where they were again confined due to Covid. The Taiwanese group is best known for being Apple’s main subcontractor: the iPhones are assembled in its factories. But if his name is almost as well known as that of the American, his story is much less so. Its founder, Terry Gou, was no less visionary than Steve Jobs. He too came from nothing. He too had faith before anyone else in the future of consumer electronics. But the Taiwanese has made discretion his real mantra, which he has applied as much as possible to his business.
The fates of the two companies are intertwined to the point that tensions at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory are expected to have direct consequences for shipments of iPhone 14 – Apple’s latest smartphone model…
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