Next month, amid the usual hoopla, Apple is expected to officially unveil its latest gadget: the much-awaited iPhone 4G. But halfway round the globe from the company’s California headquarters, a young worker who has spent months in an eastern Chinese hospital wants consumers to look beyond the shiny exterior of such gadgets.”People should know what we do to create these products and what cost we pay,” said Bai Bing as she perched on a bed in her ward.She is one of scores of young workers in the city of Suzhou who were poisoned by the chemical n-hexane, which they say was used to clean Apple components including iPhone touch screens.To read this report from The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/07/chinese-workers-sickness-hexane-apple-iphone
Chinese workers link sickness to n-hexane and Apple iPhone screens
Next month, amid the usual hoopla, Apple is expected to officially unveil its latest gadget: the much-awaited iPhone 4G. But halfway round the globe from the company’s California headquarters, a young worker who has spent months in an eastern Chinese hospital wants consumers to look beyond the shiny exterior of such gadgets.