It's probably true and there's nothing Apple or anyone can do about it apart from stop selling things. I dealt with several Chinese manufacturers in the late 1

It's probably true and there's nothing Apple or anyone can do about it apart from stop selling things. I dealt with several Chinese manufacturers in the late 1990's who were doing custom PCB runs for one of our products. They treated their staff like shit then and hid it all under the rug when you went to see them. They wheeled out the turd polish in double-quick time. I don't think it's changed and I don't think it will change unless people on the production lines just say "no". This has happened in the textile industry over there (according to my cousin who is an importer of textiles) and staff are earning great rates now. The cheaper staff are in Mexico and India now. Regarding the money - the cost of living is pretty damn cheap over there by their standards. Note: I don't like buying products myself which are responsible for this sort of thing, but I'm not that sympathetic. As for the journalists - they are as full of crap as the factory bosses are.