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Can't fight the feeling this is just an Apple-blogger's justification for how its fine that there is a level of suffering going into the manufacture of their phone, as we know from the factories having to install suicide nets.

Bottom line is, humans are cheaper than robots in the parts of the world the make your iPhone. If you ever visit the factories where this sort of thing is made its all shockingly manual, because that's what is cheapest.