Sorry, Apple, and Apple fans, but that's how it goes. [View all]

[Zalatix]

There's been a lot of dust being kicked up around here about Apple and its use of Foxconn to make its products. Lots of people have been hating on Apple, or at least pointing them out for heavy criticism. Then there are the Apple fans who say that this is unfair, because many other companies use Foxconn to make their products as well.

The problem here is, the criticisms of Apple are right. But so are the criticisms being aimed by Apple fans at all the other companies whose indentured Chinese workers have suicide nets installed to keep them from jumping to their deaths. So why are so many people singling out Apple?

Critics are singling out Apple because Apple is the most prominent company. That and they were the ones that got publicly shamed over it. Apple was the first one to get the Foxconn spotlight put on them and they became the poster corporation for offshoring to companies whose workers commit suicide under their crappy work conditions.

No, it's not fair. But the truth is, someone has to be made an example of. All companies that send their work overseas need to be highlighted and driven out of business if they won't return their jobs to America. These maddeningly arrogant and greedy corporations need to be put back in their place or put out of business and replaced by companies who hire workers in the country where they're selling to. All of them, not just Apple.

However some company has to be chosen to be made an example of. Sometimes it's the most egregious offender, which is probably NOT Apple. But sometimes it's the most prominent one, which probably fits Apple, if one goes by the company's net worth.

As for me, I prefer to approach the issue fairly. I want all companies that outsource to Foxconn to get humiliated and shamed, then boycotted and driven out of America. Make an example of all of them; and then make an example of everyone ELSE who outsources American jobs and who didn't get the message the first time around. So, for me, it ain't just about Apple.