This post is an elaboration of comments which I left on the blog post by Adam Minter on his site Shanghai Scrap. This is a little late in the news cycle. But oh well. Just started getting into the blogging thing so I’m a little slow. Last week there was news about Apple’s vendors getting caught using child labor, and lots of other unsavory practices from the maker of the iPhone. I first read NYT’s article. Yesterday I read in a blog post by Adam Minter on Shanghai Scrap his irritation about Apple Fanboys defending the Marketing Giant. He linked to the UK Telegraph, which printed this story about Apple disclosing the bad labor practices of its suppliers. I admit; I do not have factory audit experience. I do HR consulting for manufacturing customers. I used to be in the computer industry… in two different Taiwanese companies. And I live [Read more...]