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00:00:03 last month it emerged that apple the most valuable company in the world and supposedly an icon of squeaky clean progressive values brushed aside allegations of child labor within its key chinese supply chain the suggestion is that a big apple supplier named suyin electronics employed workers as young as 14 in the interest of keeping up with the ferocious appetite for apple goods in the west apple chided sooyin but maintained ties for months and even years afterwards with new allegations like this and a 00:00:30 spate of suicides associated with the brand's manufacturing base over the years we thought it was time we put on our lanyards and take a peek inside an iphone factory in china the first and most important thing to understand is that apple factories in china aren't technically apple factories at all instead the california tech giant subcontracts its manufacturing out to a firm called harm high precision industry co-limited which is much more popularly known as fo...