New York Times:
Apple’s rivals are quick to say how much better, faster, cheaper or more popular their smartphones, computers and tablets are.
Yet when it comes to working conditions in the Chinese factories that build these competing products, Apple’s electronics rivals go silent.
So why would these electronics makers be so reluctant? They won’t tell us, but Li Qiang, executive director of China Labor Watch had an idea: “Many companies, like H.P., Sony and Dell, don’t publish the full reports because they find violations and problems that are much worse than Apple, and they don’t want the media fallout from the reports.”
As the article says, while Apple may not be a “paragon of open communication”, they are certainly do more and doing it more openly than their competition.
Glad to see someone in the mainstream press pointing out that Apple isn’t the only company using Chinese factory labor. Even though I don’t think this ‘issue’ of work conditions in China deserves as much attention as it gets (they are voluntary employees, after all), the exclusive focus on Apple has been unfair.
There are no journalists left anymore, apparently. When these issues became apparent, real reporters would have hit up the other leading technology companies to find out what they were doing in light of Apple’s woes, either to highlight the claim of Apple’s supposed inaction, or provide some context for stories of the conditions at Foxconn.
Instead we got reams and reams of aggregation and commentary on second info from of a handful of sources, and the nauseating repetition of Daisey’s lies.