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US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

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275 points belter | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 11:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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bigyabai ◴[04 Apr 25 13:04 UTC] No.43581724[source]▶
Well, this is hilarious timing. The EU certainly isn't going to retract their case, so now Apple products will be divided into "the ones with consumer regulations" and "the ones without".

I hope Americans still have the faith they used to regarding Apple. Looks like we'll be trusting their judgement quite a bit going forwards.

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imglorp ◴[04 Apr 25 13:39 UTC] No.43582219[source]▶
Faith what now? Yes, it's decent product but...

It's a $3T company. It got there by extracting the maximum possible from customers, app developers, and labor. They are well known for exploiting offshore workers [1] many times over. They force customers to upgrade off working hardware. They force customers to buy multiple devices when one could do the job. There are monopoly complaints world over. Customers who are happy with this have Stockholm Syndrome.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/china-ap...

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gosub100 ◴[04 Apr 25 15:13 UTC] No.43583607[source]▶
Suppress developer wages and abuse the H1B program too.
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collingreen ◴[04 Apr 25 15:30 UTC] No.43583871[source]▶
Don't forget the suicide nets at Foxconn instead of improving working conditions
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1. stuaxo ◴[04 Apr 25 17:44 UTC] No.43585626[source]▶
Not saying they are good, but all tall buildings in Taiwan have suicide nets like the ones mentioned at Foxconn.

The west should copy this, nets are known to prevent a lot of suicide, in general people don't immediately go and try again.