Hi Stephen, I also have seen and heard it all before many times. I watched the Four Corners - Apple's Broken Promises show tonight.
Some comments: Perhaps as an introduction to the show Kerry O'Brien should explain that only Apple was targeted in this program and that questions should be asked of every electronics device manufacturer who uses Megatron or Foxconn in China. But that won't happen. / Begin Quote: Who uses these factories apart from Apple? Acer, Amazon, Blackberry, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba and Vizio. When the average Chinese workers pay is less than $1 a day, and Foxconn are paying these workers almost $7 a day, plus feeding them and housing them near the factory. They don't commute hundreds of miles every day, geez. Do I believe Apple do their best with another companies workers, yes. Could they do better, yes. Name a single other technology brand that's more transparent about their supply chain practices and has done more for workers rights and the environment than Apple? Maybe check their yearly supplier responsibility report some time. <http://www.apple.com/au/supplier-responsibility/> /End Quote Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 2 Mar 2015, at 9:09 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really ! > It’s time these people gave up isn’t it ? > “Apple bashing” generically known as “tall poppy syndrome” is happening on 4 > Corners tonight. > I just had a Windoze friend phone me to remind me it is on. > I simply answered “OK”. > > I have seen and heard it all before many times so I have not bothered > watching it. > Anyone would think Apple is the only corporation in the world that has > products made in China. > Try K Mart … try Big W … Try Rivers … try almost any large company. > > I am sure that all these large corporations do their best to limit this > happening. > But in the end it is the responsibility of the governments concerned. > > Don’t get me wrong .. I am not unsympathetic. > But really what can any of us do when pretty much everything is made in China > ? > > Regards, > Stephen Chape >
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