Apple and Iphone - full of Ishit.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I saw the documentary.

The workhouses in China were appalling, and regardless of what Apple says they (don't) know, when your supplier is fitting suicide nets to their factories and accommodation alarm bells should start ringing.

But someone earlier mentioned the other electronics companies that this documentary ignored. When it came to the tin mining operations in Indo-China, they're all culpable, and we're all to blame (partly). Before anyone jumps down my throat about it, how much do we actually care about the supply chain that goes into developing our phones, PCs or TVs etc? Vast swathes of the areas where they mine the tin (legally and illegally) have been irrevocabley decimated by the mining operations there, but nobody really seems to care because demand is almost contanst regardless of the price.ni mean, here I am typing on an iPad. Hell I even watched the documentary on this thing, so I'd be a hypocrite if I started saying 'down with Apple!'

What needs to happen is more conscientious supply chain management. Apple already charges well, well over the odds for a phone that probably costs them around $100 to make and ship. Take some of the profit and re-invest in the 3rd world countries that supply you. Demand will always be there, as is evidenced by the massive market for technological goods around the world. So take a little hit. Fat chance of it happening.