Interesting review in the Times today of a play about Steve Jobs and Apple products and how and where they're made. Question of the day: is the suffering of 13 year old children in China worth having more apps and the latest iPhone. Does your 13 year old have a cell phone put together by someone else's child who worked 13 hours to make it?
An addendum
I don't know where Microsoft does it manufacturing or if it offends as much as Apple but in one respect at least Bill Gates is heads above Steve Jobs, a man who never met a charity he liked--until he got cancer.
After more than 30 years of work, researchers have for the first time succeeded in creating a vaccine against malaria, a deadly disease that kills nearly 800,000 a year, most of them children. And the Gates Foundation was a major contributor towards the development of the vaccine. At the moment, the vaccine works in only 50% of those receiving it, but even 50% means saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children.
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