The tech behemoth, Apple, is in the spotlight not just for its record sales announced earlier this week – amounting to profits of up to $1 billion a week in the last quarter – but for how those profits are made.

The New York Times published an explosive article Thursday about the working conditions at Apple factories in China: Apple accused of ignoring labor abuses that can kill   

In the article, a former Apple executive is quoted as saying, “We've known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they're still going on…Why? Because the system works for us.” 

What do you think? Who’s most to blame for poor conditions at Apple’s factories? Apple? Apple’s suppliers? The Chinese government that allows the alleged labor violations to exist? Consumers for buying the products? Click here to vote
 
Meantime, the article was jointly published with Caixin, a Chinese business magazine, so it has already started generating some response in China. Click here to see their views:  Chinese Readers on the ‘iEconomy’