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It's representative of all the big electronics manufacturers. It is not representative of manufacturing in China as a whole, but it is wrong to conflate the hi
by eitally 15y ago
It's representative of all the big electronics manufacturers. It is not representative of manufacturing in China as a whole, but it is wrong to conflate the high tech electronics industry with, say, the building supplies, food, or children's toys industries.
- mturmon 15y agoOr, paraphrasing my recollection of Tim Cook's remarks, "we're working to extend our inspections of factory conditions deeper into the supply chain." Probably if you chase down some of the components to the iPad you'd find much worse conditions than shown here. Not to mention the bags of concrete and hunks of rebar I get at Home Depot.