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Almost all of the high-value parts of an iPhone are made in the US. Yet there is a lot of hand-wringing about the low-value, labor-intensive work done on iPhone
by greglindahl 8y ago
Almost all of the high-value parts of an iPhone are made in the US. Yet there is a lot of hand-wringing about the low-value, labor-intensive work done on iPhones in China.
- modeless 8y agoWhich parts are you talking about?
- ahartmetz 8y agoWhich ones? Screen, flash memory, CPU, DRAM, battery come to mind. All of these product types are also manufactured in the US, but not the majority of the output.
- pfranz 8y agoI think they're referring to a graph similar to this I've seen over the years (bottom of the page) https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2014/05/22/china-a-manufactured-chimera-part-two/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2014/05/22/china-a... The ones I've seen never show the US as the biggest slice, but China is always a sliver and the chart is usually dominated by Germany, South Korea, and Japan.
- greglindahl 8y agoExactly. And that analysis is of components, so it leaves out the value of ecosystem, software, and Apple’s cpu and SoC design groups, which is bigger than all of the components combined.
- azurezyq 8y agoScreen&flash- South Korea, CPU - TSMC(Taiwan), frames - China. Which high value part are you talking about is made in us?
- winthrowe 8y agoThe software, I would presume. The Snow Crash quote "America makes movies, music, and microcode" has never seemed more true.