鈥淲orkers in southern China, who say they were assembling Apple laptops and iPhones, have become seriously ill after using a dangerous chemical.
鈥淭he Number Five People鈥檚 Hospital in Suzhou has been treating workers who breathed in vapours from the chemical n-hexane.
鈥淎ccording to the workers, the chemical was being used in the production of Apple products and has left them unable to walk 鈥 They say they were using n-hexane to glue and polish the logos on Apple products 鈥
iPhone 4
鈥淵es, the notable features with iPhone 4 鈥 both the device and the iOS4 鈥 are mostly tweaks鈥, said a June 22 review on the popular site BoingBoing.net. 鈥淏ut what tweaks they are.鈥
In the interests of full disclosure, I鈥檒l admit I have no idea what 鈥渋OS4鈥 means. But my eye was caught by the admission that the iPhone 4, launched in Australia on July 29, was almost the same as the iPhone 3.
Corporations use 鈥渋nbuilt obsolescence鈥 as part of artificially creating markets. This means the products they sell are deliberately made to break down 鈥 so we have to keep buying more.