Mac OS Ken: 05.24.2022

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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- Report: Foxconn Restarts Hiring Spree at Zhengzhou's "iPhone City" - Report: Apple Has Longest Waits for Most Macs - Proposed European Law Could Upend Apple Business Models - Evercore Sizes Up Anti-Trust Risks for Apple - 9 to 5 Mac: Secret Apple "Network Adapter" Probably for Apple-Use Only - Apple Music Launches "Essential Anniversaries" - Ricky Martin Joins the Cast of Apple TV+ Series "Mrs. American Pie" - Laurene Powell Jobs Lauds Tim Cook Among Time's 100 Most Influential People - Sponsored by Notion One workspace for your whole team. Learn more and get started for free at notion.com/macosken - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN. A later early hiring spree, waiting and not waiting for a Mac, and sizing up Apple antitrust concerns.
0:17.2	It is Tuesday, the 24th of May, 2022.
0:20.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from Macawes Ken
0:26.5	brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Notion
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0:41.0	This show is also supported by people like you patrons through Patreon.
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0:58.0	Early hiring spree take two.
1:00.0	Early this month we heard word that FoxCon was hiring a surprisingly large number of people.
1:06.0	The hiring was happening at the company's iPhone City plant in Jiang JU.
1:11.0	While FoxCon would be expected to hire a huge number of people ahead of the iPhone 14
1:16.8	launch, this felt early for that. Still, some thought that's what the hiring was for while others thought it was
1:24.4	simply Apple slash FoxCon trying to keep up with current demand. We barely had time to
1:31.7	wonder about it.
1:33.8	The very next day FoxCon ended the big hiring push.
1:38.2	It actually had to, thanks to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the city and orders of lockdowns to quell that surge.
1:47.0	Early hiring spree, take two.
1:51.0	According to a piece from Apple Insider, FoxCon's hiring of staff at its biggest iPhone factory in China is taking place early in preparation for the iPhone 14, after Apple requested for the assembly partner to on board more workforce
2:05.9	members two months ahead of usual.
2:10.1	Citing a report from UDN, the piece says the effort is to ensure their sufficient manpower on hand to build iPhone 14
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