Karlos,
Thank you for posting this.. I have not purchased items manufactured in China for over 10years now....not an easy task to say the least.
Rich
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Ok. I don't like apple a great deal, that is no secret. However, I know that a lot of people buy into their vision and the queues outside apple stores suggest many people don't share my opinion.
There was a lot of buzz over the iPad recently. Personally I don't see the point of it. To my mind, it's the least useful intersection possible between the iPhone and a notebook. There are no applications it can run that a notebook can't run faster, neither is it a phone or a convenient mobile form factor for GPS etc. Anyway, these are all technical reasons I think it's a pile of hyped up overgrown ipod touch.
So, I must have been living in a vacuum lately because somehow I missed this story. If the above criticism of the iPad doesn't put you off (and let's face it, if you like apple stuff, it won't), I am sure this will:
Courtesy of the torygraph...
It would seem that the people there are simply being driven mad by the stress of working conditions:
I think we got too used to the idea that sweatshops were all busy making sports clothing and footballs...
To be fair to Apple, Foxconn don't just make their stuff; many hardware companies are happy to delegate their production to them.
I just thought apple, with their self-aggrandizing "cult of better" hyperbole might "think different" when it comes to sweatshop labour. I guess not.
