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Large Apple investors want answers over youth smartphone addiction

Two activist shareholders want Apple to develop tools and research effects on young people of smartphone overuse

Monday 8 January 2018 at 10:48

Large Apple investors want answers over youth smartphone addiction

Some major shareholders in technology firm Apple are prodding the multi-billion dollar company about its social conscience and the effect its iPhone has had on a generation of young people, David Benoit at The Wall Street Journal reports.

A leading activist investor and a pension fund are saying the smartphone maker needs to respond to what some see as a growing public-health crisis of youth phone addiction.