And why should people continue to buy overpriced Apple hardware? If you do, you are as good as supporting them with this type of workplace abuse.
Guess what happened if Apple was manufacturing there products in North America and/or Great Britain? The prices we pay today would remain the same. This concludes cheap outsourcing to 3rd world countries makes absolutely no difference with what we pay for the products.
As already pointed out, Foxconn is a first tier ODM/OEM and make damn near everything. Resting the blame on Apple's shoulders alone is just stupid when the list I cited earlier includes virtually every major PC, laptop, tablet, console, and smartphone vendor on the market in addition to other industry leaders.
While I own an iPad 3 and iPhone 4S (and previously opened each version up to these, along with various Droid devices), I am no more supporting this behavior than anyone else. If your Droid Razr MAXX and Galaxy S III are made 2 factory floors away, you are not a supporter of this behavior either. If consumers had the choice we would insist our products he made here in the USA. I bought an all American muscle car for example...but despite the Detroit connection it was actually built in Canada with a HEMI forged in Mexico. Does this mean I'm supporting the Mexican drug cartels? Or that I am against the workers unions in Canada?
I would strongly encourage Apple to make their products in the US, and I would even pay MORE for them if they had been. But for now all I can do is hope, comment, and let my voice be known to Apple on the matter.
In fact I think Apple may eventually move production to the US at some point, for some products. As it stands they have just officially become a legitimate CPU designer which shows they are focusing on controlling more aspects of performance, so surely the focus on manufacturing will come at some point.
But I find it hard to believe any other vendors would take on such a risk and costly endeavor. Competition is just too fierce, and profit margins already slipping as devices get more complex. I doubt you'll see anyone else dumping the cash into something that won't pay off for awhile.
