An interesting and perhaps informative read, whether you agree with it or not.
http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2012/02/stop-stephen-fry-from-being-idiot.html
http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2012/02/stop-stephen-fry-from-being-idiot.html
Time to let it go and leave it to Apple and Foxconn, and whatever Chinese regulatory bodies are over there.
I offer no personal bias, merely a link, but I will bust out this old adage: All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
We have yet to establish any "evil" here.
This is like a mob goes to grocery store that is being robbed by 10 people and one is a movie star.So the mob beats up the movie star.
I see this all the time as a defense. It is actually the preferred defense of Mac fanboys and tech apologists of all stripes, and it's pathetic.
Yes, Foxconn makes things for many different companies. Yes, conditions are terrible across the entire Special Economic Zone. But it is bizarre tech fannishness in the extreme to somehow think that because others are implicated in a crime that this somehow absolves Apple. It's like a child being caught with their hand in a cookie jar pointing at other children and saying, "They did it too!"
From the link:
My point was the media is focusing on Apple instead of EVERY TECH COMPANY.
Not trying to absolve Apple. Merely wanting to see the whole industry take the blame and be in the spotlight also.
Just like this thread.
In essence. Why not mention HP and Dell in the same sentence as Apple.
This.
Unfortunately the dumb people want to only point fingers at Apple because they can't think or research for themselves and realize EVERY electronic component in their house most likely has a Foxconn component in it.
My point was the media is focusing on Apple instead of EVERY TECH COMPANY.
Not trying to absolve Apple. Merely wanting to see the whole industry take the blame and be in the spotlight also.
Just like this thread.
In essence. Why not mention HP and Dell in the same sentence as Apple.
but at the same time should Apple be given a free pass? I would say no. Apple also is in the best position to cause some change.
This is a problem with journalism, particularly in that it is unfair, but it has nothing to do with the issues at hand.
Wrong is wrong. Ruminations and complaints on who gets how much blame are just smoke screens and window dressing.
Who said Apple is has been given a free pass? If you are going to point out one might as well point them all out. Yes? Why do we need to just point out one?
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While yeah that is true but the one who should take the most heat is the one who is in the best position to do something about it. That would be Apple by a long shot as such they should be taking 80-90% of the heat over the matter since they can have some real effect on the matter.
Why do you think they are in "the best position" to do something about it?
How can they, as opposed to HP or Dell, have any more "real effect" on the matter?
Lets see they the largest single contractor with Foxconn.
PR wise Apple has a hell of a lot more force and weapon that Dell or HP or the others.
So Apple doing something will have some real effect.
Apple also has its army of Fanboys who will praise and sing along spreading the word even faster.
The Fanboys now do what ever they can to defend Apple but us them for good and help get the real pressure to do something.
Apple has the tools and power to do it.
Are you telling me that HP and Dell have larger contracts than Apple or have anywhere close to the PR power Apple has?
Apple has the most power by far to force some real change.
While yeah that is true but the one who should take the most heat is the one who is in the best position to do something about it. That would be Apple by a long shot as such they should be taking 80-90% of the heat over the matter since they can have some real effect on the matter.
Sooo where was this heat on HP or DELL or SONY before apple was this big? I didn't hear anything about it in the tech sites or blogs? Why all of sudden must Apple take the "heat"?
How is Apple in the best position to do anything about it? I hope you are not insinuating that Apple should solve the working problems of another country, especailly one that is called China.
This topic became boring a long time ago. Nothing is going to change. Time to move on.