Sir, – Yet again this week we have the unedifying spectacle of The Irish Times slavishly reporting the launch of an Apple product as though it were news (“Size matters as Apple goes mini”, Business, October 24th), a mere week after you reported that Foxconn, Apple’s main supplier in China, admitted using 14-year-old “interns” in its factories. Perhaps the next time you choose to devote space to publicising the latest piece of electronic tat, you might also consider the human and ecological costs of rampant consumerism and planned obsolescence. – Yours, etc,