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Consider also the wider moral questions. Apple sources their components more carefully than other vendors when it comes to child labor, fair trade, and environm
by asolove 17y ago
Consider also the wider moral questions. Apple sources their components more carefully than other vendors when it comes to child labor, fair trade, and environmental degradation. Not as well as one might like, but certainly much better than their competitors.
I was originally thinking of not buying Apple products because of the iPad announcement and the broad moral qualms I have about open systems. But then I realized that the moral importance of abusing other human beings, animals and ecosystems outweighed the moral importance of open/closed technology platforms.
- joe_the_user 17y agoApple sources their components more carefully than other vendors when it comes to child labor, fair trade, and environmental degradation. Documentation? Especially, consideration recent revelations about abuse of Chinese workers at an Apple subcontractor. http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-electronics-opinion/43340-iphone-suicide-is-a-phone-worth-dying-for http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-electronics-opinion/43340-ip... Apple sometimes stopping the use of child on their own shows that they are better than the very worst they could be. It doesn't show they are better than their competitors. Since none of these companies is allowing any independent verification of good or bad behavior, a few press release don't matter either way. See link to Apple child labor use: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apple-admits-using-child-labour-20100301-pbzz.html http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apple-admits-usin...
- Anechoic 17y agoSee link to Apple child labor use: Right, but that child labor was discovered as a result of an Apple audit: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/apple-reports-child-labor-was-used-to-build-iphones-ipods/19376517/ http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/apple-reports...
- joe_the_user 17y agoOn skimming Apple's supplier responsibility compliance report: http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/SR_2010_Progress_Report.pdf http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/SR_2010_P..., one thing that struck me was that there were no independent agencies verifying Apple's statements (although it talks about local third-party consultants, we are given no names of these).