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Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Let's see.hugo62 said:
I suspect your comment “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” is factually incorrect..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.
Qualcomm modems, primarily Samsung displays, Broadcomm GPS chips, Sony camera sensor, USB port seems likely to be from a mixture of manufacturers, etc. Obviously things like the SOC are custom and Apple may well partner with the likes of Sony for iPhone specific image sensors. Still, I think it is fair to assume that quite a few parts are interchangeable, why reinvent the wheel for no benefit.
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Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
“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.
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Apple's continued lack of native apps on Vision Pro isn't a good sign for the platform
It does seem rather sloppy of Apple. Certainly not a financial constraint issue. -
Liquid Glass is more than skin deep on macOS Tahoe
It took me ages to work out what just seemed “wrong” with the finder icon. It’s been flipped around and looks wrong, put it back to how it should be Apple! -
macOS Tahoe is the last big update for Intel Macs
6 years is a fair timeline. They haven’t screwed over Intel users like they did with the PPC transition and Snow Leopard.
