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For iPhones I don’t quite understand the article. The only thing “made” in China is the battery. The phone is only assembled in China. But all the components ar
by philliphaydon 4y ago
For iPhones I don’t quite understand the article. The only thing “made” in China is the battery. The phone is only assembled in China. But all the components are made outside of Chinas. Assembly is much easier to move than manufacturing the components.
- shalmanese 4y agoApple has a public supplier list: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supplier-List.pdf https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supp... The majority of suppliers on that list are from Mainland China.
- philliphaydon 4y agoOk, but that doesn't change what I said? Memory is from Japan / Korea. Display from Samsung. CPU from Taiwan. FaceID from the US. Many of the chips are all made in the US. The only thing that China does is final assembly, by a Taiwanese company.