Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The making of an iPhone (pictures)





Apple contracts with manufacturers to assemble iPhones. Two of those companies, Foxconn and Pegatron, both based in Taiwan, build iPhones in the Chinese cities of Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai.Apple hires Foxconn to make most of its iPhones. Foxconn, in turn, hires hundreds of thousands of Chinese to do the labor. The jobs are in such high demand that workers line up at recruiters outside Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory. Many of the recruits in this group brought suitcases in case they land jobs at other Foxconn factories in China. [Read more]


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