Apple reveals latest supply chain responsibility report, revealing new details about how iPhones and other products are actually made

Apple has revealed new details about how exactly the iPhone is made – and how it is trying to improve the lives of people who are actually putting it together. The new Supplier Responsibility report for 2017 shows just how potentially damaging that process is. But it reveals how at least some of those problems can be removed from it, and what the company is doing to make sure it is taking those steps. The problem facing Apple and other technology companies is easy to explain, but incredibly difficult and complicated to solve. Those companies are mostly sincere in their desire to ensure people aren't hurt while making the phones in our pockets and the computers on our desks, and are largely held responsible when they fail to do so – but the suppliers are operating separately from companies like Apple and often in places with fewer worker protections and more abuses.