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Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are a lot of parallels to Jobs' Macintosh factory. He was similarly overeager with automation, and even coerced the executives to
by thisacctforreal 8y ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are a lot of parallels to Jobs' Macintosh factory. He was similarly overeager with automation, and even coerced the executives to have the machines painted.
Excerpts from Walter Isaacson's biography: https://imgur.com/a/WlJ7wsD https://imgur.com/a/WlJ7wsD
Some videos:
http://strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/apple-foxconn-strategy-1.htm http://strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/apple-foxconn-stra...
- bitwize 8y agoJobs kind of had a point. Americans appear to have a tolerance for filth and grime in the workplace that people from other developed countries do not. I'm to understand that German auto mechanics, for instance, keep their workplaces spotlessly clean in contrast to the "grease monkeys" that prevail in the USA. And Jobs had always wanted to bring the same style and refinement from the best European product design studios to his own products...