Apple investigating its Apple Watch assembler for illegally using high school students

The Apple Watch Series 4 is one of Apple’s hottest 2018 products and the company that’s contracted to assemble the devices can’t make them fast enough. A recent report, noticed by Financial Times, states that Quanta Computer, the company tasked to meet the enormous demand for the Apple Watch, used underaged workers in its factories illegally. The information triggered a response from Apple, forcing it to investigate the allegations.

The report comes from human rights group Sacom, which interviewed 28 students at a Quanta Computer factory in China. The students were sent by their teachers ...