Addressing the recent rumors that Apple had returned 5 million defective iPhones to Foxconn as the result of a manufacturing defect that could have cost the company millions, Foxconn parent company Hon Hai’s spokesman Xing Zhiping has firmly denied that the numbers being passed around are accurate in an interview with China Business News.
Although obviously the number of phones Apple has returned to Foxconn is not zero (no manufacturer is perfect, after all), and Xing declined to share more precise numbers, he did say that it would be impossible for a factory to have such a high failure rate, and that there were quality control measures in place to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
Apple has still not responded to our request for comment, and is unlikely to do so, but if it does we will update both this and our original post with the company’s response.
(China Business News via Sina Tech)
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