Everyone worships Apple. Yes, there are holdouts like myself, but for the most part, Apple has become what it parodied in the famous 1984 commercial: Apple has become The Man, the guy on the screen with all the little sycophantic peons listening enraptured (or lobotomized, depending on your point of view). Don't believe me? Well, if the stupid garbage with Apple's controls on the App Store aren't enough for you, and if today's revelation that Apple has overtaken Microsoft as "top tech company" doesn't convince you, try this:
Undercover Report From Foxconn's Hell Factory (via Gizmodo)
Foxconn is the company that actually manufactures iCrap for Apple. Interestingly, they've had quite a spate of suicides among their workers recently...so many, in fact, that Chinese newspapers decided to look into it. We're firmly on Nike territory now, aren't we?
Still ready to buy that iPad?
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