Tea Leaf Nation

Xu Weihua (@徐卫华), a mobile Internet analyst, tweets: “I heard that Apple’s CEO Cook was very happy with his trip to China, because he saw a lot of people on the streets using iPhones. There are iPhone3, iPhone4, iPhone4S, as well as iPhone5 and iPhone6. There are [iPhones] with three-inch screens, four-inch screens, five-inch screens, single-screens [...]

The narrative behind some of the world’s most coveted consumer electronics has turned even grimmer. On January 2, over 150 workers in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, threatened to jump en masse from a factory roof, alleging that the manufacturer reneged on promised pay. It took the intermediation of the city mayor, backed by a [...]