http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5262110.stm
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/06/7039.ars
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/ ... d_factory/
"Interestingly, Apple is using the fact that they have a supplier code of conduct to counter charges that the corporation doesn't care about workers in China. It's endemic to treat written statements of goodwill and good intentions as realities. Many of the 'multi-stakeholders' of the WSIS seem to approach the Declaration of Principles and Platform for Action in a similar manner. What could be done to make such statements, codes, etc. worth more than the paper on which they are written?" (Source: http://mail.kein.org/pipermail/incom-l/ ... 01418.html )
But of course they have found an apology: "Apple are only one of thousands of companies manufacturing their products in the same places and in the same conditions. It's the nature of big business today to exploit any opportunity that comes their way." (Will Sturgeon, managing editor of IT website silicon.com)
And this will not change: "Workers will be lucky if they make 2 percent of the profit from an iPod. Foxconn will make less than 10 percent. Far more money is spent by Apple on marketing the product than making it. Even if the Chinese made their own version of the iPod and sold it at a fraction of the price, no one would buy it," says Kynge. "Consumers respond to the Apple logo -- not the people in Chinese factories making the products." (James Kynge, author of "China Shakes The World:)
No further comment necessary. Again kitty trying to change the world alone
*drools a little*