On
24 September, the iPhone 5 was launched in the first nine countries/areas,
America, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Hong
Kong. It will go on to be launched in 22 more countries in the week beginning 1
October. The first weekend’s sales were very impressive, reaching 5
million. This number already broke Apple’s previous record for first-weekend
sales of all previous models of iPhone. I wonder, when all those Apple fans are
camping outside to be ‘the first customer’ or at least ‘first group of
customers’ to buy the iPhone 5, has any of the fans thought about the making of
this most advanced, light, cool gadget? This paper links the hot-selling
phenomenon of the iPhone 5 to the Chinese workers, for the very reason that
most of Apple’s iProducts are manufactured in China.
