Applemania
- I was interested to hear that Apple are launching their new iPad 3 today and everyone seems to be in a froth about it, yet no word from Apple themselves. It's still relatively early in the States, so lets see......
- Apple shares were once selling at $3.19 and a few days ago, on 1 March, they hit an all time high of $548.21! Incredible!
- Under this euphoria lurks the sweatshop news, that the conditions endured by the Chinese workers who build these iPhones and iPads are quite horrific: at the Foxconn Plant in Shenzhen, an army of 200,000 workers puts the components together by hand, working 12-hr shifts, six days a week, in silence, standing up! They sleep in cramped dormitories, in rows of bunk beds. At least 16 workers have killed themselves. Apple - Made in China!
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