In the past few days it’s been revealed that six cases of child labour have been uncovered during audits of Apple’s suppliers, flying in the face of the company’s “zero-tolerance policy” towards such practices.
According to Reuters, the news caused a stir at one of Apple’s stores in Beijing:
Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone 4S as scheduled.
Just last year it came out that there were inhumane conditions at one of Apple’s leading suppliers of iPads.
(Source: Reuters, Photo: chinnian)
