Apple lovers overlook workers
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Hungry scalpers and Apple fans were lining up to buy the newly launched iPad 2 this weekend even as protests against the alleged slave labor conditions inside Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner draw media attention.
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Protesters lay down at the Apple Store in Mongkok, downtown Hong Kong. |
"I really didn't think that much about the Chinese workers," said a shopper who had just bought a new iPad 2 on May 6, the very first day of its launch on the Chinese mainland. "I just need to have such a cool thing!"
The buying frenzy isn't over yet. As of Monday afternoon, hundreds were still jammed into Apple stores in Beijing trying to get their black 64G iPads.
None of them knew that one day after its China launch day, people around the world had gathered to say "no" to Apple's suppliers' wrongdoings toward their fellow Chinese workers.
Cheng Yiyi is one of those young people on the other side.
Cheng and staff workers from a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization performed a play about iPad workers' poor working conditions in front of an Apple store in Mongkok.
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