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On September 20 2013 10:35 Djzapz wrote:
People say the iPhone's are bad. It's not true. They're just lame because buying one encourages a company which is arguably worse than its competitors in terms of inhumane and overall disgusting business practices>
People say the iPhone's are bad. It's not true. They're just lame because buying one encourages a company which is arguably worse than its competitors in terms of inhumane and overall disgusting business practices>
Apple gets more attention in this regard because of their reputation and they're the most profitable computer company, but there's little doubt in my mind that Apple's business practices are not worse than most of their competitors. Also, they probably have the best marketing department in the world (and I don't mean just advertising, I mean the entire marketing function.)
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/pdf/Samsung Report 0904-v3.pdf
There's a lot of bad stuff from their end, too. Unsafe working conditions, forced overtime, 12 hour standing days, forced to work on vacation time, unpaid labor, underage labor, surpassing legal work hour limits, etc.
I'd be kind of shocked if most phone manufacturers weren't like that.
