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Apple sells iphones. Who makes the iphones? Not Apple.

• beambot 11y ago
  Apple designs iPhones. They manage the fabrication of parts very closely and manage their assembly and QA more closely than most of their competitors (like, big enough to make demands of Foxconn or cause them to build specialized factories). Then they sell the phones directly to consumers. They are (literally) on the Wikipedia page as an example of a vertically integrated company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration I'm not saying you're wrong... but it doesn't look like you're right.
• vacri 11y ago
  You're playing fast and loose with the definition of 'make' there. 'Physically assemble' is not the only element of 'make'.