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Re:Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on ... by nostrademons on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:27PM (#18178528)
Apple's ethical lapses have all been on the supply-side.

Rare-earth mining, contributing to serious environmental problems in China:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/global/30rare.ht...

https://www.cnet.com/news/digging-for-rare-earths-the-mines-...

(Apple stopped mining rare-earth minerals in China in 2017, 7 years after the NYTimes story broke.)

Child labor, with teenagers working 11-hour days to assemble your iPhone X:

https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/apple-has-been-using-teen-labo...

Child-labor in the mining of rare-earths:

http://fortune.com/2017/03/03/apple-cobalt-child-labor/

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Re:Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on ... by djrogers on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:06PM (#18179813)
These are not Apple’s ethical lapses - they are the failure of an entire industry. An industry, it’s worth noting, that Apple has been extremely transparent about, and has worked to fix. Also worth noting that Apple’s suppliers have improved dramatically in recent years - something that can’t be said about most other manufacturers.
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