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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Apple is the big target but the same companies that produce components for Apple are producing components for Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Sony, and other electronic companies.
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But the biggest problems are in the factories that make Apple devices. Take the 137 people that died because they were required to use a toxic chemical to clean iPhone screens. The screens of the other phones are being cleaned as well, but no deaths occurred over those.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Other than bias, do you have any evidence for that?
Any examples of Amazon, B&N, Samsung, etc punishing manufactures that abuse their workers?
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You could at least pretend to read the post that I was replying to.
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
And there are still regular reports of abuses and companies being punished by Nike and other companies precisely because the companies don't want to change.
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Or you could have read what I quoted in post #26:
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''We could have saved lives, and we asked Apple to pressure Foxconn, but they wouldn't do it,'' said the BSR consultant, who asked not to be identified because of confidentiality agreements. ''Companies like H.P. and Intel and Nike push their suppliers. But Apple wants to keep an arm's length, and Foxconn is their most important manufacturer, so they refuse to push.''
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Many major technology companies have worked with factories where conditions are troubling. However, independent monitors and suppliers say some act differently. Executives at multiple suppliers, in interviews, said that Hewlett-Packard and others allowed them slightly more profits and other allowances if they were used to improve worker conditions.
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