I'm shocked, shocked to see such obviously biased reporting coming from the august halls of AppleInsider. How deep can this scandal go? I hope you're not suggesting that MacRumors.com and Cult of Mac are also suspect?! Why are you just bringing it up in the comments of this blog — more people need to know!

Speaking of things people need to know, I wish all the media sites, local news, and late-night monologues would just stop going on and on about allegations of worker abuse at Samsung suppliers. It's practically become a witch hunt.

Sarcasm in this comment made possible by describing it as "pragmatic" when every single headline in the ever-ethical New York Times that mentions a manufacturer at all in relation to Foxconn, mentions only Apple. Along with the disregard for the fact that until 5 years ago and the release of the iPhone, Apple had such a low market share in the tech industry that other manufacturers laughed at the suggestion they could compete. With an additional contribution by the Coke spit on my monitor after hearing "I can't imagine a hypothetical Microsoft fan being that willfully blind."

Apple's success made them a target, and their "company values" as portrayed in their marketing and charismatic CEO made them a story. The facts don't absolve Apple of culpability, but they also don't justify singling them out. I could just as easily take the glass-half-full approach once again, and point out that the reason so many people single out Apple is because they're the only tech company that purports to have enough conscience to do something about it. (Now that Google's "don't be evil" has been whittled down to "try not to be all that evil or at least don't get caught, okay?")

If the attention does mean that something gets done about it, great. If no solution is acceptable other than "fire your major equipment suppliers immediately, right as other companies are launching the first viable competitors to your own product, even though they'll continue to use those suppliers without repercussion, and even though you've already had trouble meeting the insane demand for your products," then I'd have to ask who's being naive here.

Also: I didn't know what you were talking about with Papa Johns earlier until I saw the Colbert Report. Seriously, fuck that guy. I wish their pizza didn't already suck so bad, so I could vow to never eat it.