I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones. Apple and supply chain experts disagree with you. I don't think you understand the massive sc

I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones. Apple and supply chain experts disagree with you. I don't think you understand the massive scale Apple operates at. I mean, it is what it is. * There are 1.382 billion iPhone users worldwide [1] * Apple sells about 200 million iPhones per year, including 231 million of them in 2023 'Former Apple manufacturing engineer, Matthew Moore, told Bloomberg that “there are millions of people employed by the Apple supply chain in China,” and Apple has long insisted that the US talent pool is too small to easily replace them.'[3] [1]: https://backlinko.com/iphone-users https://backlinko.com/iphone-users [2]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/ [3]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/former-apple-engineer-on-why-iphones-cannot-be-made-in-the-us/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/former-apple-engineer-on-why-...