Chinese Worker Kills Self Over Missing iPhone

GUANGZHOU, China — An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing, and Apple Inc. responded Wednesday by saying its suppliers are required to treat workers with dignity and respect.

The dead worker, Sun Danyong, 25, worked in product communications at Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese firm that makes many Apple products at a massive factory in the southern city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.

Although Apple and Foxconn have confirmed Sun's suicide, they have not provided details about the circumstances, which have been reported by the state-run Southern Metropolis Daily, one of the region's most popular papers.

• Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center.

• Got tech questions? Ask our experts at FOXNews.com's Tech Q&A.

There's tremendous pressure on employees dealing with Apple's new products to maintain a high-level secrecy over the gadgets, traditionally launched amid great suspense and a big marketing buzz.

Apple is also a constant target of prying journalists, rabidly faithful customers and competitors who make great efforts to try to steal a peek at its latest technology.

Sun was responsible for sending iPhone prototypes to Apple, and on July 13 he reported that he was missing one of the 16 fourth-generation units in his possession, the newspaper reported. His friends said company security guards searched his apartment, detained him and beat him, the paper reported.

In the early morning of July 16, Sun jumped from the 12th floor of his apartment building, the paper said.

Jill Tan, an Apple spokeswoman in Hong Kong, issued only a brief statement about the incident.

"We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee, and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death," Tan said. "We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534319,00.html

ahem!

https://aflite.darkbb.com/woeful-current-events-of-rue-f11/wally-see-here-t3225.htm#67069

I at least posted the story.

:jay:

haha i just sat here staring at that smiley, because i was waiting for it to explode or something.

Dude... that would be awesome. Someone get on that!

yeah...

JAYSON

Aris and I can agree on something... that Jayson is our smilie bitch.

best..timing..ever.

you run aol and aim...and msn? Try pidgin.

pidgin sucks on dialup...aol is my dialer

God damn, i always forget you have dial up...that sucks a long one.

Im working on a letter of woe that im going to tape to the phone box up the road that they are always working on

debating whether i want to make it read like a suicide note or not

what about clearwire?

are you too rural for that?

yeah, we're about 20 miles away from clearwire coverage, and the crappy cable company that has our road doesnt offer internets

xtine wrote:Aris and I can agree on something... that Jayson is our smilie bitch.

It's good to finally have found my calling...

that is a great pun.

Dodge wrote:yeah, we're about 20 miles away from clearwire coverage, and the crappy cable company that has our road doesnt offer internets

See, all this time I thought that was the one advantage of living in a trailer.

...too easy?

911 wrote:

Dodge wrote:yeah, we're about 20 miles away from clearwire coverage, and the crappy cable company that has our road doesnt offer internets

See, all this time I thought that was the one advantage of living in a trailer.

...too easy?

+1

so how do you play onling games with dialup? didnt you used to play that live for speed game?

He bums other peoples internets....

i figured

haha dodge outed

I do actually play some on dialup as well..like autocross? not really important to have a strong connection..

it does suck hardcore all over

My pornhub usage would falter significantly were I saddled with such inferior bandwidth.

as would my liveleak quality.