The article tries very hard to blame this on Apple, which seems unsubstantiated.
Taiwan-based Foxconn [...] faces cutthroat competition from other manufacturers around China and the world. A leak of the next generation of Apple’s crown jewel, the iPhone, could badly hurt Foxconn’s business relationship with Apple.
It seems this company got a little over-eager in securing its future business with Apple. There is no indication that Apple policies drove them to take harder action against this guy than they'd otherwise have.
On the other hand, Apple should put some effort into investigating if someone had his apartment illegally searched and was illegally detained in their supply-chain.
"Apple should put some effort into investigating if someone had his apartment illegally searched and was illegally detained in their supply-chain."
No they shouldn't, that's a job for the police investigating the suicide, just as Foxconn should have called the police if they suspected wrong doing on the part of their employee.
Taiwan-based Foxconn [...] faces cutthroat competition from other manufacturers around China and the world. A leak of the next generation of Apple’s crown jewel, the iPhone, could badly hurt Foxconn’s business relationship with Apple.
It seems this company got a little over-eager in securing its future business with Apple. There is no indication that Apple policies drove them to take harder action against this guy than they'd otherwise have.
On the other hand, Apple should put some effort into investigating if someone had his apartment illegally searched and was illegally detained in their supply-chain.