Tag: Apple Store
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Gentrification: The Horror Movie
Doesn’t this look like some Ballardian dystopian horror fiction? Something out of American Psycho? So much so, someone has recut it with that footage: The real horror is the vapid emptiness of the vision, and the pure naked greed, like the reviled yuppies in the 80’s, but that was a local phenomenon. And the fact…
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Rotten Apple employed children at Foxconn
Local and mainland Chinese university students, dressed as the Foxconn workers and the mock Ipad with skeleton print as they try to block the customers at an Apple Premium Reseller shop in Hong Kong Saturday, May 7, 2011.They protest against the Foxconn and Apple for the dire working conditions of workers. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Kin…
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Greedy Apple
One thing that irks me about Apple (only one thing? everyone cries, well the ones reading my blogs anyways!) is that they like to be portrayed as the victim, the lone tiny company against a world of big blue corporates. Especially when journalists cover news stories about Apple. Well I have news for you –…
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iSweatshop – Not giving everyone a bite of the Apple?
Got an iPod? You’ve got to check this out: Following the expose of Foxxconn in China, who assemble Apple’s Nanos and iPods, Apple now say they are looking into the claims of sweatshops, workers having to work 15 hour days, and forced overtime. Very embarassing for Apple, who tries so hard to seem like a…