Apple PR alert - nase gadgete sklapaju deca, ali mi cemo im naplatiti $2MCitat:
Apple's famous desire for total control over its operations seems to have extended to its manufacturing facilities as we've come across Cupertino's Supplier Responsibility 2010 Progress Report, which details audits the American company has done of its overseas suppliers and the failures identified therein. The findings are pretty damning on the whole, with more than half (54 percent) of all factories failing to meet Apple's already inflated maximum 60-hour work week, 24 percent paying less than the minimum wage, 37 percent failing to respect anti-discrimination rules, and three facilities holding records of employing a total of eleven 15-year olds (who were over the legal age of 16 or had left by the time of the audit). Apple is, predictably, not jazzed about the situation, and has taken action through train-the-trainer schemes, threats of business termination with recidivist plants, and -- most notably -- the recovery of $2.2 million in recruitment fees that international contract workers should not have had to pay.
It should come as no shock to learn that cheaper overseas factories are cutting illegal corners, but it's disappointing to hear Apple's note that most of the 102 audited manufacturers said Cupertino was the only vendor to perform such rigorous compliance checks. Still, we'll take what we can get and the very existence of this report -- which can be savagely skewed to defame Apple's efforts (as demonstrated expertly by The Daily Telegraph below) -- is an encouraging sign that corporate responsibility is being taken seriously. We hope, wherever your geek loyalties and fervor may lie, that you'll agree Apple's leading in the right direction and that its competitors should at the very least have matching monitoring schemes. They may have to swallow some bad PR at first, but sweeping up the dirty details of where gadgets come from is juvenile and has no place in a civilized world. Hit the source link for the full report.
HAHAHAHA, izgleda je Apple pre-emptivno odlucio da "prizna" da im njihove skupe gadgete sklapaju deca koja rade preko 60 sati nedeljno...
Zato su oni uradili interni audit (a nikako nezavisni 3rd party audit - to nije dobro, jer ne moze da se kontrolise ;-) - i dodali jako lep spin "Apple's note that most of the 102 audited manufacturers said Cupertino was the only vendor to perform such rigorous compliance checks" HAHAHAHHA, mozes misliti - pitali smo robovlasnike da li neko drugi radi audit, i "most of them" su rekli da smo mi jedini... da li to ima veze sa onom OGROMNOM kaznom od $2 miliona, mozda su dobili popust ako kazu nesto lepo za Apple? ;-)
Sta se ovde moze videti?
1. Apple se iz nekog razloga u$rao cim je odlucio da objavi ovo... bice da je neko nesto otkrio ;-)
2. Skuvali su smesan i patetican PR - grozomorna kazna robovlasnicima iz sweat shop-ova od citavih $2 miliona + punchline "pitali smo robovlasnike, i vecina njih kaze da smo mi najbolji i jedini radimo audite" HAHAHA :-)
3. I, najvaznije, skupe Apple gadgete prave nisko placeni robovi... "designed in California, made in China for cheap" bato... "sokantno!" :)
Nista bolje od pateticnog corporate PR-a uz jutarnju kafu :)
Inace, sad definitivno razumem staru izjavu Apple CEO-a da on ne ume da napravi $500 racunar... to mora da je 100% tacno - uopste ne znam kako bi mogli da napumpaju cenu proizvodnje >do< $500 uz ovakvu dobru i pozrtvovanu radnu snagu :)
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