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Human Costs of an iPad
From a NYTimes article titled "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad"
“You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards,” said a current Apple executive.
“And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in China.”
Important exposé.
Photograph by Ryan Pyle for The New York Times
Aluminum dust from polishing iPads caused the blast at Foxconn's plant in Chengdu.
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