p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- “A morbid thought, but if Foxconn is building the tablet, what if the tablet was the prototype Sun Danyong lost before he was driven to suicide? They wouldn’t say he lost the mythical Apple tablet, after all.”

The question is posed by Gizmodo as it quotes Taiwan’s Apple Daily as reporting Hon Hai Precision Industry (aka Foxconn, Apple’s presence in China) is, “building the Apple tablet using previously rumored 10-inchish screens from WinTek and a battery from Dynapack, for launch in September or October”.

A week ago, “25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing,” said Digital Beat, going on:

“It’s a story, from what tech-industry friends in China tell me, of how Apple’s secretive ways send extreme pressure all the way down the company’s international supply chain.”

Be that as it may, Gizmodo has the Financial Times saying Apple is, “racing to offer a portable, full-featured, tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season”.

Meanwhile, RIP, Sun Danyong.

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driven to suicide – Apple iPhone worker kills himself, July 21, 2009
Digital Beat – iPhone prototype goes missing; Chinese worker investigated, commits suicide, July 21, 2009

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