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Will the world ever see Fair Trade iPads?

• jakejake 15y ago
  I like this idea, but I have to agree it would be unlikely for most people to pay $600 for a free-trade iPad when they can get the same thing for $500. I think it would only work if the free trade version is the only one available.
  • wanttoseedead 15y ago
    still permbanned... Apple fanboys rule HN
  • batista 15y ago
    "I like this idea, but I have to agree it would be unlikely for most people to pay $600 for a free-trade iPad when they can get the same thing for $500." Then it should be made mandatory, so that no gadget could be sold in the market that is not made in fair trade conditions --even if it was made elsewhere. You should be competing on price by slashing your profit margins or finding some more efficient engineering/materials etc, not by turning wages and working conditions into a race to the bottom.
• caesar 15y ago
  "If you’ve read the New York Times story from yesterday (...) you know that gadgets are often made in pretty harsh working conditions." I have heard of this story and I am surprised it has not been post on HN.
• batista 15y ago
  How about the other million goods that are not fair trade? When are we gonna see "fair trade" those? How about "fair trade" itself being a bullshit term, when the underlying conditions of "fair trade" producers are mostly as shit as non fair trade?