The amazing volume of products that Apple is producing and selling is unthinkable. Apple sold 17 million computers, 38 million iPods, 40 million iPads and 93 million iPhones last year. How can one company produce all of this. There has been much news about Foxconn’s factory workers committing suicide and their struggles related to being uprooted from rural to urban life. Finally we are able to see how this machine is working from the inside.
Robb Hammond is the founder and CEO of AERI, an independent electronic component distributor operating since 1994. He is a founding member and former committee chair of SAE AS6081, the counterfeit-avoidance standard for independent distributors adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a recognized authority on counterfeit detection.
