Inside Apple's top secret iPhone factory: Tech giant provides a glimpse of huge Chinese plant where 50,000 pink-jacketed staff are subjected to facial recognition, metal detectors and daily roll calls

Obama has shown he doesn't care what they think and he's also allowed Apple to "avoid" paying taxes by parking its profits offshore.

At one time not knowing when enough is enough was seen as a mental illness rather than a sign of success.

Yes i would be worried by whats in them?.

They don't smile.

I bet each and every one of them happy to have a job. Unlike here, where flipping burgers and emptying trash cans should warrant a $40,000 a year salary.

I see your point. I'd rather my iPhone or my galaxies made by automatic robots than people forced to work for them...

Modern slavery - exactly what I thought, Jamieson. The degradation of such a working life. These people are a "human resource" to make Western global corporations even more money. And Obama, the greatest US snake oil salesman, has come to Europe to tell the "human market" to buy American. If I had an iPhone, I would donate it to someone in China. Globalization seems to be one giant human consumption machine. It makes me feel queasy. Remember "The Matrix" films?

Business rubbing its hands together at the thought.

Headed to a future where people actually work for their living instead of milk the system? Bring it on.

Spot on. For anyone not familiar I suggest reading the book(yes, a book) or ,if you are that lazy, then watch the movie by the same name, 1984.

You going to pay $3,000 for a phone?

TyrantGeorge, no. Just that Apple won't make 70% profit on every single phone.

You have to be joking, George. The estimated cost of an i-phone to produce is $6 - according to the WTO and G20. You don't seriously believe that the sell price is in any way related to the costs of production. Here's another one - estimated cost of an X-Box? $8.