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Morality clashes with business priorities. Every single company under the sun deals with this fundamental conflict.

The myopic lens of online discourse is currently focused on Apple, presumably because it got the This American Life treatment, and because it is the most successful company of our time – but there isn't a single business out there that doesn't have something to answer for.

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While you're definitely right that the other manufacturers are playing the same game, i think it makes perfect sense to focus on The Most Successful Company of Our Time, just like the adbusters/anti-sweatshop movement did with Nike in the nineties.

i think it makes perfect sense to focus on The Most Successful Company of Our Time

Sure, and Apple is (and has been) doing something about this. Hopefully they will do more, but as long as their competitors continue to make use of the price advantage of Chinese labor, there is only so much they can do.

Unless of course they decide to manufacture in the US, in which case their prices will increase and we can go back to complaining about how much more expensive Apple stuff is compared to Dell, HP, etc.

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