I have little need of any smartphone, but the FoxConn stories preclude me ever buying that one.
Joel Send a noteboard - 13/09/2012 01:00:33 AM
Outsourcing US production is one thing, but sending it to a contractor that cancels locals schools to bus in the kids as workers under penalty of not getting their diploma, and where employees regularly jump off the roof because conditions are so bad... sorry, I just do not need a smartphone that badly. That is not a knock on anyone who buys an iPhone (my wife got one for Christmas the year before last,) because Apple does not exactly promote those stories. It is just a matter of getting the word out and explaining why I, personally, feel like I would be subsidizing their practices if I bought their phone knowing what I know. If loss of sales caused them to treat their employees like human beings, that would, of course, change.
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Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!

LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
This message last edited by Joel on 13/09/2012 at 01:01:34 AM
iPhone 5 anybody?
- 12/09/2012 09:29:32 PM
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No. I do need a smartphone sooner or later, but I have no intention of buying an iPhone.
- 12/09/2012 10:28:06 PM
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I don't have a smartphone, and I don't really plan on getting one.
- 12/09/2012 10:50:46 PM
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I have little need of any smartphone, but the FoxConn stories preclude me ever buying that one.
- 13/09/2012 01:00:33 AM
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I wouldn't buy an iProduct to safe my life. *NM*
- 13/09/2012 08:32:09 AM
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really because I would buy damn near anything it would save my life.
- 13/09/2012 08:41:49 PM
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I need a new phone so I guess I will consider it
- 13/09/2012 08:39:09 PM
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Why would it be simpler? Most popular apps are cross-platform.
- 13/09/2012 09:10:33 PM
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If I could make my wife do things she doesn't want to that would be way down the list
- 13/09/2012 09:28:04 PM
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Hence my "Seriously though" aside. You ain't the only married man.
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- 14/09/2012 05:57:19 AM
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- 14/09/2012 05:57:19 AM
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They did what they had to, and no more. There is nothing exciting about the iPhone 5.
- 13/09/2012 08:57:00 PM
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