Are any iPhones made in the USA?
Are any IPHONES made in the USA?
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Apple always denies that they’re accurate, but EETimes and others do estimates of the bill of materials and other costs.
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No. All iPhones are currently made in China. If they were made in the US they would cost roughly twice as much, because US labor rates are about 10 times what Chinese assemblers are paid.
Not just iPhones; there are no cell phones of any kind made in the US, for the same reasons. Even Samsung (Korean) phones are made in China.
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Apple always denies that they’re accurate, but EETimes and others do estimates of the bill of materials and other costs.
I wasn’t disputing anything you said. Just responding to the OP to point out the nature of consumer electronics is that they are really a global industry, in terms of actual sourcing of parts.
And really, that’s not a new or novel thing either. Companies like ASUS and Acer were assembling products for Dell, IBM, HP and others long before anyone knew of them for their own name branded hardware. Mass final assembly of consumer electronics has been an industry unto itself since the 1990s and companies like Foxconn can put together and churn out iPhone and iPads probably faster than the parts manufacturers can supply them. That’s their specialty and their whole business model - putting all the pieces together.
Are any iPhones made in the USA?