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know about where the iPhone’s
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manufactured and how are iPhones

made? You can get an iPhone case
made in the USA easily but what
about the phone itself?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has never
shied away from making it clear that
the iPhone’s components are mostly
produced in the United States.

He has stated numerous times that

people often associate the place
where the device was assembled
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The company uses specialized

manufacturers for individual parts:
camera specialists are in charge of
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focus on the display, and the list
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the United States… There are

components of the iPhone built in
the United States. The glass is from
Kentucky. Many chips, silicon chips,
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Cook also stated in another Its Brain
interview that there is still
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However, while China might offer

the skill quantity Apple is after, the
iPhone hosts too many components
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some iPhone components in India
among other places, the Financial
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major quality control issues there as
compared to China.
The situation is apparently so dire,
iPhone casings made in India have a
50% rejection rate, so one in two
iPhone components cannot be used
in the final product.
“At an iPhone casings factory in
Hosur run by Indian conglomerate
Tata, one of Apple’s suppliers, just
about one out of every two
components coming off the
production line is in good enough
shape to eventually be sent to
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for building iPhones, according to a
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operations said the factory is on a

plan towards improving proficiency
but the road ahead is long,” said the
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Considering Apple has embarked on

a long journey to reduce its
dependency on China for making
iPhones, these issue show just how
complex the manufacturing chain
really is.

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To give you an idea of how global the

iPhone is, we’ve compiled a short list
of some of the suppliers’ countries
of origin.

The cameras are made by Sony. The

company is based in Japan but has
locations in numerous other
countries such as Australia, South
Korea, Europe and Latin America.

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The accelerometer is made by

German-based Bosch Sensortech
and the gyroscope by
STMicroelectronics, both of which
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have locations spanning the globe,

from the U.S to China, the United
Arab Emirates and South Africa.

The glass screen is manufactured

by Corning, which is based in the U.S
but also operates in countries like
Australia, Denmark, India, Japan,
Turkey and the Philippines.

The touch-screen controller and the

Wi-Fi chip are manufactured by
Broadcom and Murata, respectively,
both of them U.S-based but with
other locations such as Japan, Brazil,
Thailand, The Netherlands, Finland
and Singapore.

Then we have the battery, which is

supplied by Samsung but also by
Sunwoda Electric, which has
headquarters in China.

At the heart of the iPhone, we will

find the A-series processor from
TSMC. It is based in Taiwan but has
other locations in China, Singapore
and the U.S.

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above, the answer to the question

“where are the iPhones
manufactured” is not simple at all.
The text you’ll see on the device
states that it was “Assembled in
China”, with ‘assembled’ being the
key word here: it was not fabricated
in the country.

So, the short answer to the question

of manufacturing is simply: pretty
much everywhere.

However, while the components

might come from sources all over
the globe, all of them are sent to
only two other companies,
responsible for assembling them:
Foxconn and Pegatron, both based
in Taiwan.

Foxconn has worked with Apple for

years and its largest factory is
located in Zhengzhou, China, but
the company also has other
locations which include, but are not
limited to South Korea, the
Philippines and the Czech Republic.

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Foxcon’s main factory is said to

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hosts around 350,000 employees.

Thanks to these numbers in terms of
size and workforce, the Zhengzhou
assembly line is capable of
producing no less than 500,000
iPhones per day.

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Apple works with carriers like FedEx
and UPS to ship its iPhones all
around the world. For the U.S-
bound devices, the flights depart
directly from Zhengzhou, China,
stopping by in Alaska for refueling
and then the planes make their final
stop usually to Louisville, Kentucky.

From there on, they are put in the

charge of other logistics
professionals, who reroute them to
different destinations throughout
the U.S.

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The iPhone began its development
in 2004, as a confidential operation
called “Project Purple”.

The first-generation iPhone took a

while to see the light of day, but it
was eventually announced on
January 9th, 2007, by former Apple
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company has been releasing a new
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So far, Apple has released no less

than 29 iterations of the iPhone.

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In 2021, Apple generated $365

billion revenue in 2021, 52% came
from just iPhone sales. Apple
Services was the second largest
division, responsible for 18% of
revenue, while the home and
wearables division grew 25% in
2021. In 2020, the company sold
230 million iPhones, 71 million
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MacBook units. As you can see, the
iPhone
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they also travel across it before

finally finding their forever home in
our bags and pockets.
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According to fresh data, iPhone

remains one of the most-sold mobile
devices in the world, with 240
million iPhone units shipped in
2021 alone. It is estimated that
more than 2.2 billion iPhones have
been sold as of 2022.

In 2022, the number of iPhone users

in the US reached 124.7 million,
while:

51% of iPhone users are

females while 49% of iPhone
users are males.
iPhones are most popular in
the 16-34 year age group.
35% of people who use an
iPhone have an Apple Watch
too.

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FROM APPLE IN 2023?
According to sources, the “iPhone
15” won’t arrive until the fall of
2023, but rumors are already
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product, saying that it would be
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cameras. An iPhone Fold could also

arrive in 2023 as an ultra-premium
in the “iPhone 15” lineup, for
approximately $1,500.
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iPhone SE 2023 is also expected

around May 31, featuring a design
similar to the iPhone 11 with Touch
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