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
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