Apple Supplier Audit Reveals Child Labor, More Violations

By Darrell Etherington Mar. 1, 2010, 9:17am PT 6 Comments

Apple has been criticized in the past for not doing enough to ensure that labor conditions in its supplier factories were up to international humanitarian standards. Today, it released its 2010 Supplier Responsibility report (PDF), in which it provides the details of … Read More »

ESRB Wants App Store Games to Be Rated

By Darrell Etherington Jun. 11, 2009, 5:37pm PT 13 Comments

You may or may not have noticed that among the new features coming in iPhone OS 3.0, due June 17, are parental control settings that prevent users from downloading audio and video material from … Read More »

App Store Moral Battleground: “South Park” Nixed

By Darrell Etherington Feb. 18, 2009, 10:00am PT 12 Comments

Apple may or may not be thinking about it this way, but the iPhone App Store is fast becoming a moral battleground for the gaming and entertainment industry. Forget the ESRB, forget the MPAA, the new moral authority developers and studios have to contend with is Apple’s … Read More »

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