Apple Suppliers Using Underage Labor?

Here's something to think about the next time you want to post your next iPhone rant on Twitter: "Apple products are made in factories that regularly employ young teenagers, constantly work people more than 60 hours per week, and falsify records to cover up their misdeeds." (Makes your push-related battery drain seem less fury-inducing, doesn't it?) This, according to Ryan Tate at Valleywag, stems from a report on Apple's "Supplier Responsibility 2010 Progress Report" (PDF), which seems to reveal all sorts of lousy stuff. It was an audit done by Apple, so we're sure Jobs is on the job, if you'll excuse the pun. That said, we still love our Apple products -- so shiny, so new, so overwhelmingly neat-o. But you can expect rabid Apple fans to lose their collective shit in five, four, three, two...