OT: Apple Stories: iSlave

Alexander Lehner lehner at edv-buero-lehner.de
Sun Feb 24 23:48:44 CET 2013



On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Matthias Apitz wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Last night, because of being lazy, I watched TV channels and zapped
> into a documentation about Apples factories in China, Foxcon, and
> the stories about how the iPhones are made; for the Germans in this
> list, it was that:
> http://www.phoenix.de/content/phoenix/die_sendungen/apple_stories/597901?datum=2013-02-23
> I don't know if it was recorded for downloads.
>
> If there would have been a need for one last argument against those
> devices, this movie would have served: I will never ever be an iSlave!
> No way!

Yep - me myself having been lazy - saw this docu also; quite impressive.
It of course touches a lot of political and social discussions - and im my 
oppinion this is not only an Apple thing.
(Well, they are right now the worst guys of the bad guys...)

Giving people in the developing/development countries like Africa and China 
an affordable access to mobile phone and other systems is said to make 
them progress. On the other hand, those are the guys who have to produce 
those devices (and not only iPhones) under inhuman circumstances.

And on the other side is a OpenPhoenux for 666 EUR which works so lala or 
for example another idea like the 'green mouse' [1] for around 30 EUR.
Both not affordable or recomendable for 'normal users'. And still far away 
from human production conditions.

It's somehow a bit like fighting against a drug mafia.
Or food companies that put horse-meat into fast food.
Or states that sell weapons into countries that deliver certain resources.
Etc etc...


Many things to consider about and worth discussing that stuff with other 
people. Just my tiny late-night thoughts...

A.

[1] http://www.nager-it.de/


(Sent from my desktop PC ;)




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