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I struggle with not buying iPads and iPhones for my kids – and when I see this I feel slightly better about it.
The trouble is buying Google IT instead
But that’s what the whole family has
The advantage of buying Google is that only the software is controlled by one corporation. Kind of like Microsoft on PCs, where the PC itself comes from a range of companies, the Google phones come from a range of different companies, with Apple products, they control the hardware and the software!
or you could buy Fairphones (https://www.fairphone.com/) instead!
Their website contains lots of detail on what they do to get conflict-free minerals, support worker’s rights along their supply chain and make sure their products can be repaired and upgraded rather than replaced. The website also has a detailed breakdown of the costs of each phone (https://www.fairphone.com/2015/09/09/cost-breakdown-of-the-fairphone-2/).
If you don’t like Google’s Android (which it can run) you can use the open source FairphoneOS instead
As far as I can see they don’t yet have a section on tax justice on their website. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands and sells mostly in Europe. Maybe we can push them to be transparent on that as well.
I will take a look
Thank you
Thank you PFN – I will take a look myself.
Daniel,
From a tax perspective the Apple model is perhaps a bad thing: from an information security perspective it’s a huge plus. Unless you buy Google’s own phones, you can wait forever for patches to critical vulnerabilities.
And who’s to say that Samsung, Motorola et al aren’t also playing the tax games that Google and Apple do?
That’s why country-by-country reporting is so important