Billy Manzi

4/9/12

Professor Fluery-Lawson

Digital App

Apple Manufacturing Corp.

Would you want your eighteen year old daughter to be working in a manufacturing company for minimal wage, and in rugged conditions? Well for little “Chen” working in in a factory in southwestern China, this is her reality! She has to work through harsh conditions, and brutal, and long days. The whole company is so independently based on building one part of the Apple I Pad, that Miss Chen did not even know what she was looking at, when the reporters presented an I Pad that she probably help build, in front of her face. “Miss Chen stares curiously at the I Pad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.”

There are an exponential amount of people that work at the same factory that Miss Chen works at. While living in the lower class part of a small Chinese town, she can afford little, and is used to working long hours that take up most of her day. An eighteen year old girl should not be working in a huge factory; she should be in school, becoming a knowledgeable person. “The 18-year-old student from a village outside of the southern megacity of Chongqing is one of more than one million factory workers at a Chinese company that helps manufacture products for Apple Inc.'s lucrative global empire, which raked in a record $46.3 billion in sales last quarter.” A big name company such as this one does not give a second thought to “small” issues such as the one that preoccupy Miss Chen.

All in all, the company that we all know and love, Apple, has beautiful and amazing products that we all use every day. However, at what expense do we use these products for? If a small girl must suffer for us to be entertained on a long car ride, then is it really worth it? I don’t believe so! Instead of playing Draw Something on your I Phone, read a book, or just play a game to pass the time.