If people saw what kind of life workers lived before they found a job at Foxconn, they would come to an opposite conclusion of this story: that Apple is such a philanthropist. - Zhengchu1982
Original: The Western world manufacture most of it's goods in China. Apple also does that. And for Apple as well for all other brands using China in manufacturing, there is an ethical dilemma; Chinese workers has horrible working conditions in comparison to workers in the West - and they are paid quite low.
This is old news. Apple has joined the Fair Labor Association, and filed the first report recently. The report describes the problems they have discovered, and how they are trying to resolve it.
It's ironical and unfair to criticize Apple, just when they are speeding up the effort to minimize bad working conditions.
A letter to Apple's employees from Tim Cook are sited in 9to5mac.com:
"We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues. What we will not do — and never have done — is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word. You can follow our progress at apple.com/supplierresponsibility."Why not support Apple's effort and instead take a look at Chinese and Korean companies like ZTE and Samsung?
