Apple boss defends conditions at iPhone factory

Apple boss Steve Jobs has defended conditions at a Taiwanese electronics firm that produces the firm’s popular iPhone, following a spate of suicides. “Foxconn is not a sweatshop,” he told a conference in the US. Mr Jobs said that Apple representatives were working with Foxconn to find out why 10 workers had killed themselves at a factory in Shenzhen, China. An eleventh worker recently died at another factory in northern China.
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