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I live in Arkansas and our legislature has passes a similar law and the hysteria over this amazes me. We have so many problems in this country yet here we are expending untold energy over these types of bills.

Everything that Apple does gets inordinate press coverage. Add Apple to any headline and it quadruples the coverage if not more. Greenpeace did it. Every cause tries to get Apple involved in their cause to get more headlines. The LGBT cause has an insider at Apple. . . which makes it easier for them and they know it.

Forget that Microsoft, Google (Android), Intel, and almost every other high-tech company also did the same thing. . . but put Apple's name on it and everyone gets in a high-dudgeon and starts screaming boycott only about Apple. Apple was just ONE of a dozen companies that signed the document last Friday. . . which included those mentioned above. Yes, Tim Cook is gay. . . and that makes it more high-profiles, . . but the other companies have done it just as much and longer.

Some on here were using this opportunity to hit Apple for using "Chinese slave labor" but Apple actually pays three times more than any other contract manufacturer to workers on its assembly lines and it is seven times the Chinese minimum wage. Unlike any of the other Consumer Electronics makers, Apple has Apple employees monitoring working conditions throughout its supply chain. . . and will (and has) cancel even multi-billion dollar contracts for violators of worker conditions.

Here is a list of the companies doing business with Apple's main contract assembler. . . try and find a company that does NOT use Chinese labor:

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s subsidiary FoxConn Technology Group assembles approximately 45% of the consumer electronics in the world according to numerous sources including Wikipedia and the New York Times. Here is a partial list of 52 of FoxConn's customers I've been able to compile from news articles where their contractural relationships were mentioned over the past five years:

Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Alcatel (France)
Amazon (United States)
Apple Inc. (United States)
Archos (France)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
BenQ (South Korea)
Blackberry (Canada)
Cisco (United States)
Dell Inc.(United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Fujitsu (Japan)
GE Thomson
Google (United States)
Griffin Technologies (United States)
Gründig Mobile (Germany)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
HTC (Taiwan)
Huawei (China)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Kyocera Communications (Japan)
Lenovo (China)
Lenovo/Motorola Mobility (China)
LG Lucky GoldStar (South Korea)
Microsoft (United States)
Microsoft MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola Communications (United States)
NCR (United States)
NEC Casio Communication (Japan)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia Oyj (Finland)
PackardBell (Netherlands)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Pioneer Electronics (Japan)
Samsung (South Korea)
Sanyo (Japan)
Sharp (Japan)
Siemens (Germany)
Sony (Japan)
TCL Communication Technology (China)
Telefunken (Germany)
Thomson (France)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)
Xiaomi (China)
Zoostorm (New Zealand)
ZTE (China)

Another 45% of the world's electronics are produced by similar contract manufacturers such as Pegatron and others. . . mostly in China. You cannot escape it.