What's the biggest iphone market? You are an investor? Sorry, putting a few lira under your mattress because you're scared of the next coup crashing your economy doesn't mean you're an investor.
Coup is of the past. I'm typing from my real Iphone. You are probably typing from a clone fake Iphone while you are busy in the factory making real ones for me...
Apple have opened the doors to their Chinese 'sweatshop' factories where employees are paid as little as £1.12 an hour.
Many of the staff perform monotonous tasks like wiping down screens or shaving aluminium from the edge of the Apple logo for ten tedious hours at a time.
And now the conditions inside the factory in Shenzhen - where 18 employees have killed themselves - can be seen, after ABC TV network were given exclusive access.
Monotonous tasks: Workers, paid as little as £1.12 an hour, work on the production line at Foxconn factory
Workforce: Wages have risen at the factory in recent weeks and staff were happy a probe found - although bored by the work
The broadcaster revealed that the entry-level salary of just £180 per month is so low that it would take more than two months salary to pay for the cheapest iPad.
Even if the lowest earners do the maximum available overtime of 80 hours per month, they still do not earn enough to pay tax.
Previous reports have claimed that some of the workers were doing 24 hours at a time, while others were forced to stand for their entire shifts.
While the Nightline documentary knocks down those suggestions, it does show the suicide nets covering the whole site, in place to stop over-worked and stressed employees leaping to their deaths.
Managers ordered asked for the nets to be put up two years ago after nine workers committed suicide in the space of three months.
Suicide nets: This netting was installed at the Chinese factory two years ago after a spate of suicides
Finishing touches: An employee works on an Apple product at one factory. Pay is so low that an iPad would be more than two months wages for the lowest paid
Apple - the world's most valuable technology company - have faced claims that their contractors are forcing staff to do overtime involuntarily and employing underage workers at the factory.
It was in response to these attacks that Apple threw open their doors at the Foxconn City plant in Shenzhen, China.
Foxconn City is a unit of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Company which employs up to 1.1million people in a series of huge factory complexes in China.
Liang Juan, 26, told ABC News that management is 'strict'.
Wearing a white boiler-suit in the spotless factory, it is her job to flip over camera lenses with a tiny pair of tweezers.
Asked what she thinks about when performing the dull task, she said: 'I don't think much about other things because the management is strict and we're busy working and have no time to think about other things.'
Queue: Chinese people line-up for jobs at the factory. Most of the employees are aged between 16 and their mid 20s
Despite the boring jobs unemployed young Chinese workers queue up for work - and employees say that working conditions are much better than at other factories.
An estimated 3,000 people were queuing at the gates to find work on one day when ABC News were there.
Workers are charged around £11 per month to share a dormitory with seven other people and pay around 50 pence for a rice dish in the cafeteria.
Apple have also allowed independent examiners from the Washington-based Fair Labour Association in to carry out inspections.
Hard at work: Staff typically do long shifts for low pay at the factory in China
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