Among the components I took apart were a bunch of hard drives. Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital - Foxconn name on circuit boards and parts. Maybe people should boycott Seagate etc. (No where in the article was it mentioned what factories were involved or who the components were manufactured for - the "Apple" in their title was made up out of thin air.) As for the drives, the shiny spinner platters go to a daughter for jewelry and toy making. She makes mobiles and other toys from them. The rare earth magnets inside drives are huge and powerful, making for fun projects.
Sure, there are parts bearing the Foxconn name. That doesn’t mean that all competition should give up. The more, the merrier. And in the near future, because of what’s happening now, markets will be more merry, less centralized and more distributed than ever. There are antecedents and consequences, actions and reactions. It’s the way of things.