Hey, welcome to the thirty-fifth installment to Cool Companies, a weblog published by the most grandiloquent imbecile one could ever meet. Also, he has an iPhone! It's an overpriced marvel in modern computing, and it is manufactured by today's corporation. Alright, let's say that you hate Apple. You have a Blackberry device, or maybe one developed by Nokia. Similarly manufactured by Foxconn. Alright, what if you are hip and use a Samsung, but you also play multi-million dollar video games. The "Playstation 4" and "Xbox One" video game systems are manufactured by Foxconn. Alright, so maybe you hate violent games; you own a Nintendo. Too bad, it's made by Foxconn. Okay, so maybe you don't engage in any of the utterly asinine video games sold today, and you merely enjoy the archaic beauty of literature. I hope that your favorite Pynchon novel is still in print, because both the "Kindle" e-Reader and "iPad" tablet computer are made by this beast of third-party assembly. With this revelation, we have traversed the entirety of the proverbial circle.
Now that I have engaged in my typically unsolicited rant, I must divulge the concise nature of this corporation. Foxconn, or the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that may or may not be evil. Its employees are reportedly suicidal due to horrific mistreatment, and the quality of its products is dangerously subpar. Regardless, the flaccid nature of Taiwanese worker protection assures that Foxconn will perpetually serve as the source of overpriced technology.
And that's cool, right?