Apple products are not made by prisoners or slaves. Nice try. They are made by some of the highest paid factory workers in China while other workers assembling ANDROID phones in the same factory will be working for one-third to one-half the pay per hour of the Apple line workers! All of those Apple line workers applied for the positions on Apple assembly lines and were selected from thousands of applicants for the jobs because of the higher pay that Apple requires they be paid.
Apple also enforces good working conditions and will not permit child labor in their supply chain, requiring any contractor to pay for a college education and housing through age 25 for any under age 18 workers found working on ANY Apple products for that contractor. This enforced disincentive assures that no contract company will ever deliberately employ underage workers on Apple manufacturing. Apple has cancelled a $2 billion contract with a subcontract who failed to abide by Apple's strict conditions for working conditions and age limitations and re-awarded the contract to another company at a substantially higher cost to Apple.
Apple maintains its own staff in these plants to assure working conditions and pay levels are in compliance with Apple contractural requirements. These are facts GingisK, not some false innuendo aimed at Apple when it is an assumed problem endemic to Chinese manufacturing that Apple is the one Consumer Electronic firm that is actually actively trying to improve conditions.
Other customer companies, including the over 500 consumer electronic name brands who contract WITH THE SAME ASSEMBLY CONTRACTORS THAT APPLE DOES, but who do not enforce such workers' rights, wages, and working condition rules in their contracts as Apple, merely give lip service by joining New York based organizations such as China Labor Watch and say they are doing something about worker rights and conditions while Apple writes the into their contracts and actively ENFORCES them!
If they really had a sense of honor, they’d make them here.