People & Planet has launched a petition calling upon major electornics brands to uphold freedom of association standards in their supply chains. The petition comes as a response to attempts by electronics companies to tactically…
Apple started an investigation after SACOM’s report revealed that it’s supplier Quanta Computer employed students to make Apple Watches in the Chinese city of Chongqing. These students didn’t worked voluntarily, worked overtime and their activities…
SACOM published a new report Apple Watch Series 4: Still Failed to Protect Teenage Student Workers. In summer 2018, this in-depth re-visiting investigation was conducted as a follow up after the report Apple Watch 3 in…
While many politicians and businesses express concerns about the escalating economic tensions between China and the US, Apple suppliers are particularly vulnerable to the effects of a trade war. Apple outsources much of its production…
Competition in the Chinese smartphone market – the worlds largest – increases amid signs of maturity and declining shipments. China alone accounts for around 30% of global smartphone sales, but for the first time the…
China Labor Watch (CLW) criticise Apple on it’s 2017 Supplier Responsibility Report, sending an email to Apple’s CEO citing evidence of continuing violations in its supply chain. CLW expressed concerns about Apple’s supplier responsibility standards and…
The worldwide shipments in the smartphone market shows a decline of 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2017. Overall Samsung remained at the top of the worldwide smartphone market in 2017. Only in the fourth…
Apple has faced heavy criticism from the President Donald Trump administration, which demands that it creates jobs in the USA. A report by Jenny Chan and Mark Selden in ‘China’s Worlds’ (2017) looks at Apple’s response to…
In August 2016 the European Commission ruled that Apple has to pay 13 billion of taxes to the government of Ireland. Ireland now is forced to collect this money the don’t want. The EC has…
Join the Greenpeace campaign and ask Samsung to stop fueling climate change. Greenpeace: “Despite all its PR talk of “championing the impossible” and “doing bigger things”, Samsung still relies on dirty, old-fashioned fossil fuels like…