I read the article “Apple ‘determined’ to improve conditions at plants in china”. This article is about abuse going in in the plants in china and the abuse ranges from a lot of different things. Abuses at Chinese plants that are run by the manufacturer Foxconn have started to gained recent attention in news reports, those reports are saying that the workers are suffering from long working hours, underage workers and a secretive, and a militaristic culture, due to the high demand of famous products such as the iPhone and the iPad. This news for the computer giant has become a rare public relations problem. The Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke about the underage workers saying that they do not work with chain suppliers who intentionally hire underage workers and if they find out that supplier does do hire underage labor they consider it is a “firing offense”. Cook also commented on the long work hour violations and said that an Apple worker works no more than 60 hours a week, but that already is 20 hours more a week then an average American worker works in a week. During the interview the topic had switched over to the fact that the company has 98 million dollars, and were questioning if that was going to go out to shareholders based on the fact that it is way more money than the company needs to run. With the huge demand for Apple products like last quarter alone selling 37 million iPhones. Due to the huge demand for the products I believe that the company realized they need to keep up with the supply and demand, in doing so they have “bended” in their eyes the rules to how to get things done. They are increasing the work hours in order to make more phones by a certain period of time, and they are increasing workers by hiring underage kids in order to get more phones made as well. This is not fair to the workers in anyway and was exposed by news reporters. Apple claims they are determined to better the working conditions for the workers, and refuse to hire underage workers as well.