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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929"><B>United States Securities and Exchange Commission Washington, D.C.
20549</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929"><B>Notice of Exempt Solicitation Pursuant to Rule 14a-103</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0pt; color: #292929"><B>Name of the Registrant: </B>Apple, Inc.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 13pt 0pt 0pt; color: #292929">Name of persons relying on exemption: <U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vicky
Wyatt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0pt"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929">Address of persons relying on exemption: <U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></FONT><U>2443
FILLMORE ST #380-1279. SAN FRANCISCO CA 94115<FONT STYLE="color: #292929">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></U></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 13pt 0pt 0pt; color: #292929">Written materials are submitted pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g)
(1) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Submission is not required of this filer under the terms of the Rule, but is
made voluntarily in the interest of public disclosure and consideration of these important issues.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0pt; color: #292929">The proponents urge you to vote FOR the Shareholder Proposal
calling for a Report on Forced Labor, Item 7 at the Apple Annual Meeting of Shareholders on March 4th 2022.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 48pt 0pt 0; color: #292929">To Apple Shareholders:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 48pt 0pt 0; color: #292929">SumOfUs urges you to vote FOR proposal 7 at the annual meeting
of Apple&rsquo;s shareholders on March 4th 2022. This proposal calls on Apple&rsquo;s board of directors to prepare a report on the extent
to which Apple protects workers in its supply chain from forced labor.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 48pt 0pt 0; color: #292929">The proposal is as follows:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; color: #292929">RESOLVED that shareholders of Apple, Inc. (&ldquo;Apple&rdquo;)
ask the Board of Directors to oversee the preparation of a report, at reasonable cost and omitting confidential and proprietary information,
on the extent to which Apple&rsquo;s policies and procedures effectively protect workers in its supply chain from forced labor, including
the extent to which Apple has identified suppliers and sub-suppliers that are at significant risk for forced labor violations, the number
of suppliers against which Apple has taken corrective action due to such violations, and the availability and use of grievance mechanisms
to compensate affected workers. The report should be posted to Apple&rsquo;s website.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Independent journalists and research organizations have alleged,
based on evidence they gathered, that at least nine companies in Apple&rsquo;s supply chain participate in the government of China&rsquo;s
forced labor program. This evidence raises serious concerns for investors as to whether the systems Apple has in place to identify and
eliminate forced labor from its supply chain are adequate.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">There is growing concern within the international community about
the horrific human rights abuses being perpetrated against millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the government of China&rsquo;s
network of internment camps and labor programs<SUP>1</SUP>. The UK, Canadian and Australian Parliaments and the US State Department have
all described the oppression and imprisonment of Uyghurs as a genocide.<SUP>2</SUP> The US State Department has warned US businesses with
connections to Xinjiang that they are at high risk of forced labor in their supply chains, and in December the US Administration signed
into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which prohibits goods from the region unless 'clear and convincing' evidence can be shown
to the contrary.<SUP>3</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The animating concern behind this shareholder proposal is that Apple&rsquo;s
own policies and procedures aren&rsquo;t fit for purpose if the company may have overlooked instances of forced labor that journalists
and research organizations have identified, using publicly available sources. Only with an internal review of the effectiveness of these
measures can shareholders understand what new policies and processes might need to be put in place to eliminate the risk of forced labor
altogether from Apple&rsquo;s supply chain.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929"><B>Credible evidence of allegations of forced labor found in Apple&rsquo;s
supply chain.</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Apple relies on over 200 suppliers globally for its products, some
of which are located in or source inputs from the Xinjiang province in China. Experts such as the US State Department advise that the
situation in Xinjiang presents a set of unique challenges for businesses trying to identify and address forced labor in their supply chains.<SUP>4</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>1</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1A73E8; background-color: white">https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/02/asia/xinjiang-china-karakax-document-intl-hnk/</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>2</SUP></FONT> https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world/uk-china-uyghur-genocide-motion-gbr-intl/index.html</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>3</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="background-color: white">https://www.state.gov/the-signing-of-the-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act/</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>4</SUP></FONT> https://www.state.gov/xinjiang-supply-chain-business-advisory/</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">At least nine<SUP>5</SUP> companies in Apple&rsquo;s supply chain
have been alleged to be participating in the government of China&rsquo;s forced labor program, despite Apple&rsquo;s own code of conduct
listing forced labor as a violation of its core policies.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">A report by <U>The Independent</U> in 2020 alleged that over 80,000
Uyghurs have been sent from Xinjiang province to work in factories throughout China under a government-directed labor program that Uyghurs
do not enter or remain in voluntarily. The report stated that Uyghurs sent to work in factories are separated from their families, kept
under surveillance, and prohibited from praying or reading the Koran.<SUP>6</SUP> The article identified Apple screen manufacturer BOE
Technology Group and O-Film, a supplier of camera components for the iPhone, as recipients of government-transferred Uyghur workers.<SUP>7</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The <U>Independent</U> article was based on a report by the Australian
Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The ASPI report contained additional details about the Chinese government&rsquo;s labor program that
tracked the International Labor Organization&rsquo;s indicators of forced labor, including having &ldquo;freedom of movement restricted&rdquo;;
&ldquo;isolation, such as living in segregated dormitories and being transported in dedicated trains&rdquo;; and being subjected to monitoring
and surveillance.<SUP>8</SUP> In many cases, Uyghurs are sent directly from detention centers and are threatened with being sent back
if they break the rules, the ASPI report alleged.<SUP>9</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The ASPI report was widely covered in the press. Articles describing
its findings, including the fact that Apple suppliers were using involuntary Uyghur labor, were published in the <U>Los Angeles Times</U>,<SUP>10</SUP>
<U>Business Insider</U>,<SUP>11</SUP> <U>The Economist</U>,<SUP>12</SUP> The <U>Telegraph (UK)</U>,<SUP>13</SUP> <U>The Guardian</U>,<SUP>14</SUP>
and the <U>Chicago Tribune</U>,<SUP>15</SUP> among others.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Within one week of the ASPI report, the Associated Press published
results of its own on-the ground-investigation around the O-Film factory.<SUP>16</SUP> The investigation contained interviews with residents
living near the factory who claimed that the Uyghur workers, while paid, were only allowed outside the facility two times per month, were
dispatched by the government and did not come of their own accord, and were forbidden from practising their faith.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>5</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1A73E8; background-color: white">https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/10/seven-apple-suppliers-linked-to-chinese-forced-labor-programs</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">;
</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1A73E8; background-color: white">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/shares-of-china-s-ofilm-drop-after-firm-loses-foreign-customer</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">;
</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1A73E8; background-color: white">https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/29/22204920/lens-technology-uighur-forced-labor-xinjiang-amazon-apple-tesla</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>6</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-china-xinjiang-factory-nike-shoe-apple-dell-volkswagen-a9366956.html</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>7</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-china-xinjiang-factory-nike-shoe-apple-dell-volkswagen-a9366956.html</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>8</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>9</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>10</SUP></FONT> Alice Su, &ldquo;Forced labor reported
at China factories; Uighurs from &lsquo;reeducation&rsquo; camps are being exploited, policy institute says,&rdquo; <U>Los Angeles Times</U>,
Mar. 6, 2020.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>11</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-china-suppliers-uyghur-muslims-forced-labor-report-2021-5</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>12</SUP></FONT> &ldquo;What happens when China&rsquo;s
Uighurs are released from re-education camps,&rdquo; <U>The Economist</U>, Mar. 7, 2020.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>13</SUP></FONT> Nicola Smith, &ldquo;Uighurs are
making shoes for Nike in Chinese forced labour factories, report claims,&rdquo; <U>The Telegraph (UK)</U>, Mar. 1, 2020.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>14</SUP></FONT> Lily Kuo, &ldquo;China transferred
detained Uighurs to factories used by global brands&mdash;report,&rdquo; <U>The Guardian (London)</U>, Mar. 1, 2020.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>15</SUP></FONT> Dake Kang and Yanan Wang, &ldquo;Tech
from China features forced labor; Coercive practices are imposed on isolated Uighurs,&rdquo; <U>Chicago Tribune</U>, Mar. 10, 2020.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>16</SUP></FONT> https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-apple-inc-weekend-reads-china-clamps-down-3f9a92b8dfd3cae379b57622dd801dd5</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The U.S. government sanctioned 11 Chinese companies, including O-Film,
in July 2020, citing forced labor concerns.<SUP>17</SUP> News reports indicate that Apple ended its relationship with O-Film over the
issue.<SUP>18</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Apple&rsquo;s 2020 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report (2020
Progress Report) says that in the preceding year the company found just 12 core violations of labor and human rights in its assessments,
specifically, &ldquo;10 working hours violations, 1 debt-bonded labor violation, and 1 underage labor violation&rdquo;. This report doesn&rsquo;t
reference the extent of forced labor found in the investigations into O-Film, and Apple hasn&rsquo;t provided an explanation or analysis
of the gap between these reported instances and the violations captured in its own reporting.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">In January 2021,Tech Transparency Project (TTP) discovered Chinese-language
sources alleging that at least 3,200 workers had been dispatched from predominantly Uyghur prefectures of Xinjiang to Lens Tech factories
elsewhere between 2017 and 2019.<SUP>19</SUP> The first dispatch of 1000 workers from the city of Turpan in 2018 to Lens Tech facilities
in the Hunan Province was part of a transfer program which included provisions for &ldquo;ethnic unity education&rdquo;.<SUP>20</SUP>
An additional 2,200 people were dispatched to Lens Tech facilities in Jiangxi the following year from the Uyghur-majority Kashgar Prefecture
by an organization known for &lsquo;military-style&rsquo; forced labor transfers.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">According to coverage of the issue, <FONT STYLE="background-color: white">Apple
responded that &ldquo;it regularly investigates its suppliers as part of its auditing process and has seen no evidence that Lens Technology
has used [Uyghur] workers on Apple production lines.&rdquo; Apple was quoted as stating that it had &ldquo;found no evidence of any forced
labor on Apple production lines.&rdquo;<SUP>21</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">TTP&rsquo;s findings also alleged for the first time that such labor
transfer workers are managed by the Integrated Joint Operations Platform, a Chinese government surveillance database designed specifically
to monitor ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. An Apple spokesman told the <I>Washington Post </I>that Lens Tech had been audited by Apple
previously, and flatly denied that any Uyghurs were working at its factories despite video evidence captured by TTP that appeared to show
the contrary.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>17</SUP></FONT> Ana Swanson, &ldquo;U.S. Imposes
Sanctions on 11 Chinese Companies Over Human Rights,&rdquo; <U>The New York Times</U>, July 20, 2020; Margi Murphy, &ldquo;US sanctions
Apple, Google and Amazon suppliers over alleged Uighur human rights abuses,&rdquo; <U>The Telegraph (UK)</U>, July 21, 2020.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>18</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.yahoo.com/now/apple-said-cut-ties-china-053835057.html</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">;
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/shares-of-china-s-ofilm-drop-after-firm-loses-foreign-customer</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>19</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/29/22204920/lens-technology-uighur-forced-labor-xinjiang-amazon-apple-tesla</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>20</SUP></FONT> https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/another-apple-supplier-linked-forced-labor</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>21</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/07/apple-denies-a-report-that-one-of-their-chinese-suppliers-are-using-uighur-slave-labor-on-production-lines.html</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">In July 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported<SUP>22</SUP> that
Lens Tech had phased out Uyghur laborers transferred from Xinjiang - seemingly confirming that the company had engaged in the practice.
The extent and nature of the violations at Lens Tech don&rsquo;t appear to be captured in Apple&rsquo;s own reporting.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">In August 2020, Tech Transparency Project used shipping records and
Chinese documentation to allege that Apple sourced retail employee uniforms from a Hong Kong-based company, Esquel Group, that's been
implicated in forced labor in Xinjiang. Apple accepts that it sources cotton from Esquel but denied that it comes from Xinjiang.<SUP>23</SUP>
Esquel Group owns three milling facilities in the region and works closely with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a quasi-state
entity the US government identified as using forced labor.<SUP>24</SUP> In July 2020, the Department of Commerce imposed sanctions on
an Esquel subsidiary in Xinjiang for its involvement in forced labor and in January 2021 the US enforced a blanket import ban on Xinjiang
cotton.<SUP>25</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">In May 2021, <I>The Information </I>released a report independently
analyzed by the Tech Transparency Project and China Labor Watch that provided detailed allegations of probable forced labor at seven additional
Apple suppliers.<SUP>26</SUP> This included Advanced-Connectek, which up until 2019 operated a plant in a remote industrial park located
immediately adjacent to the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center, which is surrounded by &ldquo;barbed-wire
topped walls punctuated by guard towers&rdquo;&mdash;a hallmark of forced labor factories. A government statement said that the companies
in question &ldquo;provided support&rdquo; to companies including Apple. Apple told the Information that &ldquo;despite the restrictions
of Covid-19, we undertook further investigations and found no evidence of forced labor anywhere we operate.&rdquo;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>22</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-suppliers-to-apple-nike-shun-xinjiang-workers-as-u-s-forced-labor-ban-looms-11626795627</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>23</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apples-employee-uniforms-tied-forced-labor-xinjiang</FONT><BR>
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/10/apple-imported-clothes-from-xinjiang-firm-facing-us-forced-labour-sanctions</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>24</SUP></FONT> https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issues-detention-order-cotton-products-made-xinjiang-production</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>25</SUP></FONT> https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issues-region-wide-withhold-release-order-products-made-slave</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>26</SUP></FONT> https://www.theinformation.com/articles/seven-apple-suppliers-accused-of-using-forced-labor-from-xinjiang</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929"><B>Standard corporate auditing tools to identify forced labor in
supply chains are inadequate.</B></P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">In July 2021, the US State Department issued updated guidance for
US businesses &lsquo;exposed to&hellip; entities or individuals in or linked to Xinjiang that engage in human rights abuses,&rdquo; including
&ldquo;widespread, state-sponsored forced labor and intrusive surveillance taking place amid ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity
in Xinjiang.&rdquo;<SUP>27</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The Business Advisory &ldquo;urge[d] businesses and individuals to
undertake heightened human rights due diligence to identify potential supply chain links to entities operating in Xinjiang, linked to
Xinjiang (e.g., through the pairing program described in III. a or Xinjiang supply chain inputs) or utilizing Uyghur or other ethnic and
Muslim minority laborers from Xinjiang.&rdquo;<SUP>28</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Specifically, the Business Advisory warned that &ldquo;China&rsquo;s
ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang and the repressive and opaque environment in China presents extreme challenges
to conducting human rights due diligence.&rdquo;<SUP>29</SUP> In its proxy statement, Apple repeatedly references the number of independent,
third-party supplier audits it conducts including &ldquo;conducting interviews with workers in their native languages and without their
managers present.&rdquo;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The Business Advisory, however, states that &ldquo;third-party audits
are not a sufficient due diligence program, and may not be a credible source of information for indicators of labor abuses in the region,&rdquo;<SUP>30</SUP>
because, among other things, &ldquo;[a]uditor interviews with workers cannot be relied upon given pervasive surveillance, the threat of
detainment, and evidence of workers&rsquo; fear of sharing accurate information.&rdquo;<SUP>31</SUP> Chinese government officials, wary
of scrutiny of factories by Western media, have cracked down on in-country labor auditors employed by numerous overseas firms. In September
2020, the Wall Street Journal reported that five supply chain audit firms had ceased activities in Xinjiang because &ldquo;given the lack
of access and heavy policing in the region, they can&rsquo;t realistically carry out proper examinations of factories.&rdquo;<SUP>32</SUP>
In April 2021, another such organization, Shenzhen Verite was shut down following a raid on its offices by Chinese authorities. Apple
had previously hired the company (but not to conduct audits, it said in a statement to the Journal).<SUP>33</SUP></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Apple&rsquo;s statement in opposition to the proposal does not mention
China and the unique challenges Xinjiang presents, and doesn&rsquo;t adequately explain the gap between the credible allegations of forced
labor in its supply chain, evidenced by public verifiable sources, and its own disclosures of labor violations.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>27</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Xinjiang-Business-Advisory-13July2021.pdf</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">,
at 2.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>28</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Xinjiang-Business-Advisory-13July2021.pdf,
p11</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>29</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Xinjiang-Business-Advisory-13July2021.pdf</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">,
at 11, 14.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>30</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Xinjiang-Business-Advisory-13July2021.pdf</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">,
at 14.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #292929"><SUP>31</SUP></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Xinjiang-Business-Advisory-13July2021.pdf</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">,
at 14-15.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>32</SUP></FONT> https://www.wsj.com/articles/auditors-say-they-no-longer-will-inspect-labor-conditions-at-xinjiang-factories-11600697706</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="color: #292929"><SUP>33</SUP></FONT> https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-closes-u-s-auditor-as-tensions-mount-over-forced-labor-allegations-11629390253</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Moves by government and regulators to restrict or ban imports from
the Xinjiang region, unless companies can provide clear and convincing evidence that they are not linked to forced labor, puts Apple&rsquo;s
supply chain under even greater scrutiny.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">The evidence detailed above demonstrates that Apple&rsquo;s current
procedures and policies are inadequate to the task of identifying instances of forced labor -- numerous credible allegations of forced
labor were identified by journalists and organisations without the company&rsquo;s resources.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">Failure to develop robust systems to protect the company from producing
goods made with forced labour equal to the challenges in places such as the Xinjiang region is therefore not is not only a brand risk
but risks significant supply chain disruption and necessary to protect shareholder interests.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman; margin: 0pt 0; color: #292929">We urge you to vote FOR proposal 7.</P>

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