Angry iPhone Users To March On Apple Tomorrow – China Business

www.businessinsider.com — Tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time, a group of ticked off Apple customers will show up at Apple's headquarters and stores in D.C., New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore. Activists will try to prove their point by wearing iPhone costumes, waving iPhone posters and delivering petitions in Mac boxes; they will be delivering petitions signed by 250,000 people asking the company to develop a worker protection strategy in response to reported abuse in Chinese supplier factories.

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