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History

Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, April 1st, 1976. These two were college dropouts at the time. Though they had the innovative idea of a computer small and easy enough to use. Later, known as a iphone.

The two started out in Steve Job's garage, without anything but each other and the idea. By 1980, they had made the Iphone 2, which had color graphics which made the sales skyrocketed.

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Information on Apple

Location : Cupertino, California, United States.

Employee count : Around 164,000.

Revenue : $124,3 Billion (USD)

Profit : $184.103 Billion (USD)

Logo : The logo and brand name was inspired by Steve Jobs love for apples, as in the fruit.

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Products

Apple's products are mainly revolving around their phones, computers, laptops, watches, and tablets. There are also various smaller items.

These are used for everyday tools, projects, and mainly social media. The company is known for their high quality hardware, and sleek design. These products are made in factories located in China and India. This is known as globalization.

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Employees

Apple factory workers are not treated the best. You see, Apple gets their products made in other countries, countries with lesser work wages. This saves money yes, but this exploits worker rights. How? Well, because these factory workers have a lower work wages, and are less seen, so these factories will set unfair or/and abusive work environments. Migrant workers are subjected to horrible treatment in these factories, such as long work hours, without breaks, lack of benefits, restricted movement, excessive production targets, and little to no days off.

On the other end, the higher up employees get treated well, and paid well enough.

Though unethical, this makes profits for apple.

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Evaluation

This company, in my own opinion, isn't great for society. Many kids have easier access to social media because of Apple products. Social media is great in spreading new ideas, and connecting people. But social media also has bad ideas and horrible people. A mature audience will turn away from the bad parts of social media, but curious children and immature people will get bad ideas from social media. Social media which Apple made more accessible and normalized.

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References

guides.loc.gov

ethical consumer.org

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Personal Connection

I have already known about these issues. I've known for a long while that bigger companies will always have a flipside with corruption and exploitation.