saarek

Xed said:

saarek said:

“designed and built in the United States.”. I think that most people, even Americans, would consider that wording to mean that a company came up with the design in the USA and that said company then manufactured said device in the USA for sale.

However, I suppose one could say that designing the phone by selecting parts already on the market and then building the phone by having the various parts put together in their final stage in the USA would, technically, qualify.

I mean, if a person ‘designed’ their own prefab house from, say, Sweden, by using a website that lets them pick and choose parts. And then that person arranged for a local builder to put it all together they could claim that they “designed my own house and had it built by a local builder.”

To be fair, a lot of the iPhone is not really custom either. From the displays to usb c ports, much of the device is available to other companies from the same manufacturers.

You're absolutely right. Nothing in the iPhone is original or unique. In fact, every single atom existed long before Apple was a company... and even before actual apples existed. It's all just various combinations of elements. Even the software is just a variation on ones and zeros. Nothing unique there.