I think this is a lot of wishful thinking by the OP/author.
Apple trounces Microsoft in the "hip/fashionable" category.
They just sold 3 million iPads in 3 days. I'd say that an indicator that the average consumer doesn't give a rats ass about what some tech blog writer thinks. Every Apple store is packed to the brim with people with every concievable demographic. No one goes out of their way to visit the Microsoft store (lol). No one is lining up for Windows phones.
The real reason Microsoft doesn't get any grief for also manufacturing products at Foxconn is not because of good PR ... it's because no one cares that Microsoft also makes products there. It's only a story because APPLE is associated with it.
The fact that Apple is getting so much grief for the Foxconn thing and Sony/Samsung/Microsoft/Amazon/etc. are not (they all use Foxconn) just goes to show if anything that people view Apple as very different from these other companies.
