[w1ntermute]

> When companies become as large as Apple and begin purchasing products from vendors. It is not possible for them to guarantee the safety and operation of every vendor.

It's one thing to have occasional issues of the sort. It's a completely different matter to be so bad at preventing these problems that you're ranked dead last amongst international IT companies in China. Apple's famous perfection clearly only applies to things that make it money:

> Ma Jun is one of the leaders of the Green Choice Alliance, a coalition of 36 Chinese NGOs that tracks pollution reports among international brands operating in China. In January, they released a report focusing on global IT companies that ranked Apple dead last among 29 companies in responding to inquiries about pollution and workers' safety. Last winter, Ma met with Jia and helped him pen a letter about working conditions and medical compensation to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. It went unanswered. So did a second letter.

[eridius]

Yeah, and PETA routinely ranks Apple very low in their reports (even immediately after praising them for their green efforts on whatever the newest product is at the time). They do this because it gets media attention. I have no idea what this group is that tracks pollution reports, and no reason to expect that they're a fair and impartial body that is portraying a completely accurate picture in their reports.

[r00fus]

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