The Outsourced iPhone

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I have not fact-checked this, I get all kinds of crap in my email that I don't know where it came from. But I do know most computer parts are manufactured overseas. I post to remind Apple lovers that they can't love their products because Al Gore is on the board, and promote ending trade at the same time. We need a President who will get tough on raising living standards around the world, labor, environment, equal rights.

"Look, 451 parts go into each iPod. And if anything, the iPhone is an even more complicated device!

I think the companies that make and assemble these devices are chock-full of investment potential. As you might guess, there is a very direct connection to Asia in there, too. Let me show you …


Japan: The most expensive component in the iPhone is its hard drive, which is manufactured by a Japanese company — Toshiba.

The Philippines: Of course, Toshiba makes a lot of its hard drives in the Philippines.

South Korea: Samsung provides the iPhone's main processor. In other words, South Korea provides the device's "brain."

Taiwan: Apple outsources the entire iPhone manufacturing process to several Taiwanese companies: Asustek, Inventec Appliances and Foxconn.

China: In turn, those three Taiwanese companies have most of their factories in mainland China. In fact, Foxconn has a manufacturing center in Longhua, China that is so large it has been nicknamed iPod City. It's a massive complex where 200,000 Chinese work and sleep."

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