US monologuist Mike Daisey has gotten into a spot of bother over his current show’s syndication on This American Life, and they’ve retracted the episode they did with him – incidentally the...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2012/03/20/defending-mike-daisey-not-that-he-needs-it/
After Mike Daisey with his Apple/Foxconn monologue, here’s Jon Stewart tackling Apple and other tech firms reliance on labour exploitation in China to produce their goods. Unfortunately us lime...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2012/01/19/the-daily-show-does-applefoxconn/
Nokia announced themselves back in the smartphone race yesterday, with two forthcoming Windows 7 models, the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800. They’ve lost ground hand over fist in recent years to Apple...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2011/10/27/nokia-lumia-800-another-foxconn-sweated-smartphone/
Even with a failure to meet latest targets – presumably to iPhone 5 hype and 4S meh meaning phone sales were down 3 million from projections – Apple Computer still turned a ludicrous $28bn la...
Here’s an important short video from SACOM, the campaigning academic group behind last year’s brave undercover exposé of working conditions inside Apple iPhone and iPad outsourced supplier F...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2011/06/08/ipad-exploitation-a-view-inside-foxconn/
Tomorrow is Make IT Fair’s day of action, focusing on working conditions in Apple Computers’ supply chain. Apple are the target here as they subcontract most of the work in making their hugel...
Oh dear. I’d been under the impression that Steve Jobs had been “all over” the Foxconn worker abuses issue, and things were getting better. Two new stories challenge all that though. Firstl...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2010/10/11/foxconn-steve-jobs-thinks-its-all-over-it-isnt-now/