This article features more great reporting from the NYT about what goes into building Apple products (the iPad specifically) and bringing visibility to the production and supply chain conditions that we typically ignore. This article and its companion piece (posted previously on this blog) raises important questions about what consumers would be willing to pay for socially-responsible electronics. Based on current buying patterns (my own included), probably not much.
"In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad" by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza
Published in the New York Times, January 25, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=1&src=rechp
Eric
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