How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? APPLE doesn't itself make the iPhone. It neither manufactures the components nor assembles them into a finished product. The parts come from a variety of suppliers and the assembly is carried out by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm, at its plant in Shenzhen, China. The “teardown” graphic below, based on data from iSuppli, a market-research firm, shows who makes w
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