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by Turing_Machine 5286 days ago
"Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in China" Or imagine if the top ten stories pointed out that they aren't Apple's factories, but Foxconn's, and that Foxconn also makes the Playstation 3, the Wii, the Xbox, and the Amazon Kindle, as well as stuff for Acer, ASUS, Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung... Yet somehow Apple always takes the blame. I've even seen this used as a justification for buying an Android device over an iPhone. Does anyone seriously think that conditions in the HTC or Huawei factories are different from Foxconn's to any significant degree?

I don't like the factory conditions in China, either, but neither do I like seeing Apple getting the brunt of the criticism.

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Fair enough. My point wasn't to single out Apple.