18 People Who Are Boycotting Apple Over Harsh Factory Conditions in China
Twitter users disgusted by the tech giant’s terrible workplace conditions in China vow to boycott.
|With two mammoth front-page reports this week, The New York Times exposed abuses that have claimed the health and lives of workers who make iPhones and iPads. It’s not the first time word has gotten out from the Chinese suppliers that manufacture many of Apple’s biggest sellers, but this time the Twittering class has taken serious notice.
Boycott to the slave manufactured trade of Apple!
— Not your amusement (@RationalDoom) January 25, 2012
ya, apple is the devil! Ima boycott them and help the workers in china with swollen legs from standing all day...rite after i buy this ipod
— MMoses (@MGMoses) January 26, 2012
Let's boycott apple
— Daniel Tedeton (@dtedeton) January 25, 2012
If Apple does not employ Amer, then boycott them. Stop buying their products for 6 months and let them suffer in revenues.
— Lorna (@md4obama) January 26, 2012
When The New York Times blew the lid off terrible workplace standards at Chinese tech manufacturing factories, and we learned iPhones will never be made in America, some Apple users decided it was time to say, “iQuit” (Aly Song, Reuters / Landov)
As much as I love Apple products, I will not buy another Mac or apple product until they are made in America. Boycott Apple!
— Roy(@Roy1956) January 25, 2012
Boycott Apple 4 outsourcing jobs & exploiting Chinese, who they require 2live in dorms, B oncall 24/7 & work 12-16 hour days 4 slave wages
— The Dolly Room (@The_Dolly_Room) January 24, 2012
Apparently THIS is how all the ipods and ipads and electronic gizmos are made... By Chinese slave labor. BOYCOTT APPLE!
— vaxen_var (@vaxen_var) January 24, 2012
So many good reasons to boycott Apple & other abusive corpotations, hard to imagine how they stay in business, much less in control of govt
— mamakaruna (@whatzaname) January 23, 2012
Appalling terms and conditions in Apple EULA should make every educator boycott the new authoring tools. Before you all get too excited...
— Tony Parkin (@tonyparkin) January 21, 2012
I will NEVER buy anything from Apple until this stops.Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China: nyti.ms/xHMEgh
— TDHawkes (@TDunyati_Long) January 26, 2012
after reading this i'm not buying anymore apple products .
— Penny Proud™(@_AnotherDreamer) January 26, 2012
Not buying new Apple stuff again until they're conflict-free. nyti.ms/wlKgQ9
— Daniel Sircar (@danielsircar) January 26, 2012
no but #RNS im not buying another Apple product ..this shit's ridiculous
— Amerigo Vespucci (@Kim_tastiic) January 26, 2012
if you haven't noticed, @HuffingtonPost has a great article about Apple that makes me very comfortable not buying an iphone
— Tyler Stull (@tstull_tweets) January 26, 2012
Will NEVER buy another iPhone or an iPad!!!!iPhones built, in part, by 13 year-olds in China pulse.me/s/54QK4
— Ginny Lee (@ginnyleern) January 21, 2012
Another reason I'll never buy anything Apple sells. nytimes.com/2012/01/26/bus…
— Sub-Quantum Engineer (@denny_deluxe) January 26, 2012
Terrifying and sickening. Think carefully before you buy an Apple product. I know I won't be anytime soon. nytimes.com/2012/01/26/bus…
— Alexandra Sybo (@afsybo) January 26, 2012
After using Apple products since 1985, the NYT article on their labor practices in China make me pause before I buy another one..awful
— DoctorBri (@DoctorBri) January 26, 2012