Apple and Foxconn: Running rings around the iPad_其他

Apple and Foxconn: Running rings around the iPad

Yes, consumers like you and I have the ultimate power in this era of consumer. Simply stop buying Apple’s product and you’ll see it immediately improve its behavior, not just with the glass screens of the iPhone but the company’s moral fiber as a whole.

The iPad, as I said earlier, is a great gadget. However, if you decide to boycott Apple and refused to buy another Apple product, I won’t fault you for doing so, as yours truly will be doing the same.

Don’t forget, though, that our immediate concern here is the phrase “running rings, or circles, around someone”. This phrase was developed originally from hunting. This explanation, from Phrase.org:

It was used by fox-hunters but more often by those indulging in hare-coursing, which is now banned in the UK. The circling runs made by the hare in its attempts to outrun the chasing greyhounds were called rings.

As for people, this term is literally seen during long-distance running at the sports meet. In 10,000-meter running, for instance, athletes are to run around the 400-meter track 25 times, i.e. running 25 laps in order to cover the distance in full. Some runners run so fast that they sometimes are able to lap their opponents, i.e. running one or a few more laps than their opponents do using the same amount of time - I have seen some runners give up after being lapped a few times. And to lap one’s opponents is, like, to run rings (circle) around them.