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Foxconn engineer looses iPhone4G prototype, commits suicide!

Ok now that’s sad. Sun Danyong, a 25 year old Foxconn employee committed suicide after losing an iPhone 4G prototype he was supposedly working on. When the…

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Ok now that’s sad. Sun Danyong, a 25 year old Foxconn employee committed suicide after losing an iPhone 4G prototype he was supposedly working on. When the phone, his apartment was illegally searched and got was detained and physically abused. Sad story. I’m not going to debate about all this “Apple puts too much pressure on ODMS for secrecy” for now. Let the man rip.

Source : VentureBeat

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