as long as the economy is global and social systems (if countries ever have such a concept) are local, you will never solve the problem that somwhere in world poor people have to work for rich people under miserable conditions because they have no choice. My only hope is the one day the oppressed majority will stop fighting eachother and instead organize globally to oppose against the rich decicion making minority.

They're not all engineering students, some of them have different professions in mind.  As it states in the article, one is in business finance (i.e. accounting).

I agree, interns are often put into busy work, but busy work typically has something to do with what they're doing.  My niece and nephew both did internships for engineering.  Neither of them did menial tasks such as assembly line work.  Both of them filled important roles within the organization.  Though my niece's internship was a summer role, but my nephew was hired out of his.

thanx for more clarification, i just remembered hearing that foxconn was in on making them, and googled "foxconn making xbox"   and that was the top result.  

Was it on reddit? i dont use it and the only time im ever on there is when someone links a discussion that may or may not be a juicy read.

Yep.  Someone tried to use it to suggest that the Xbox One was being manufactured in the same regard by Foxconn.  They are not.

It's possible, at the time of the Geek.com article, that Foxconn was working on development kits, but I'm guessing that after that article Microsoft decided Flextronic probably would keep quiet about it.

There's no mention of the PS4 in the original story...

I'm pretty sure most devices are made this way, Its how the big companies operate. Otherwise we would be paying alot more for our products.

Lets put it into perspective.

When the comedian who Microsoft contracted for their event supposably went on his thing he was tied to Microsoft even though he has worked with many companies before and really wasn't working for Microsoft. Because Microsoft just happened to use him for their event it is a Microsoft thing.

Sony is being singled out because their products are the ones being produced atm.

No different when Apple was singled out when the Iphones were being made.

I hope they were taught to correctly apply thermal paste at that college.

Bitch please, I pay for my college to work 14 hours a day + 24 hours and dont receive a penny, never complained cause I'm learning on it...

The Chinese are shameless.

Exploiting unpaid interns used to be an American Innovation™, but they just can't stop ripping everybody else off.