A lot of people have asked for my take on The New York Times piece yesterday about the true cost of making Apple products in China. Let me first just say that it’s an important piece full of good reporting by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Parts of it are very sad — sickening, really.
But…
I read Duhigg and Barboza this morning, on my shiny MacBook Air. It felt terrible and wrong. I worked all day with iPads and iPhones and macs. It felt right, but also wrong. This is a terrible place to be - loving your devices, but hating how they’re made. This short piece is worth your time & attention, because Foxconn is where so many great things are made, in horrible situations. It’s pretty terrible.
