Don't like Apple? Use Samsung as an alternative.
Most electronics manufacturers, including Apple, don't just assemble in China but use it as their supply chain. They buy displays from one company in China, batteries from another, plastics from yet another, flash memory chips from someone else, and assemble it all there before shipping it. Buying parts cheaply, and then assembling them cheaply, is how they make their money. A lot of money, in Apple's case, since Apple products are fairly overpriced. For instance, Apple sells it's 16 GB iPad 2 with WiFi only for $500. Acer's 16 GB A500 tablet with WiFi only--but also HDMI out, USB host, and a better screen--is $300.
Samsung, however, does things differently. For starters, their manufacturing is in South Korea, not China. South Korea has not just a minimum wage which is by law reviewed and adjusted annually, but also the worker protections you would expect from a civilized country with a remarkably high standard of living.
Add to that that not only is the final product assembled in South Korea, but almost all the components are as well: Samsung makes their money by being their own supply chain. They manufacture their own displays, their own batteries, their own flash memory, their own processors, etcetera. Virtually every component in a Samsung-branded device was manufactured by Samsung, in South Korea, unless they literally could not get it anywhere else--for instance the hardened "Gorilla Glass" which is only manufactured by Corning Inc. in either Harrodsburg, Kentucky or Shizuoka, Japan.
If you're looking for an alternative to buying things made by Chinese factory workers, there IS an alternative that is manufactured almost entirely by well paid and protected workers in a country with a high standard of living, without having to sacrifice your wallet.
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both blow Apple away in quality and usability (and they are both Android 
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My favorite complaint is that Samsung's tablets also have rounded corners.
Where's the nearest Apple store? I mean, if we have to pick an evil...
Hopefully you'll respond back
of course.
I'm not opposed at all to responding to any questions on the issue.
I hope you can see from my response (above) that I'm not really being inconsistent here.
Thank you for taking the time to think about the issue I raised.
content-free, wrong, conclusory - weak.
It's entirely related to a thread about woo-hoo Samsung - which if you actually read any of the thread you would see is entirely linked to the Korean government (see posts #99 and #100), but you're probably more interested in dismissing a very-anti DU concern like giving a shit about the world's animals.
Vile.
The folks at the Times are just a bunch of Apple fanboys who hate Chinese people.
