"Apple typically asks suppliers to specify how much every part costs, how many workers are needed and the size of their salaries. Executives want to know every financial detail. Afterward, Apple calculates how much it will pay for a part. Most suppliers are allowed only the slimmest of profits."
"Many major technology companies have worked with factories where conditions are troubling. However, independent monitors and suppliers say some act differently. Executives at multiple suppliers, in interviews, said that Hewlett-Packard and others allowed them slightly more profits and other allowances if they were used to improve worker conditions."
The article clearly explains that Apple management does care, but that their drive for secrecy and control makes it much more difficult for them to affect change. Maybe he typed it on an HP computer instead.
Wait until the NY Times finds out how many loggers die
each year to cut down the trees to make its paper.
Multiply this through, and it is quite likely that 1000+ people have died in the process of feeding the Times.
If the NY Times doesn't like how the iPad is being made perhaps they should pull their content from Newsstand. Wait until the NY Times finds out how many loggers die each year to cut down the trees to make its paper.