China Assembles The iPhone And Keeps 3.6% Of Its Value

DATA · WHAT CHINA ACTUALLY KEEPS China Assembles The iPhone And Keeps 3.6% Of Its Value Every other country, combined US, Japan, Korea, Germany + others $172.46 China (assembly) Foxconn/Pegatron labor only $6.50 3.6% — for assembling the whole phone ⋯ FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, SAME SHAPE iPhone 16, China's cut Contractor/Rutgers 2025 model · single source $38.89 Xing & Detert, Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper 257 (Dec 2010) — iPhone 3GS bill-of-materials teardown, total cost $178.96. "96.4% actually amounts to transfers from Germany, Japan, Korea, the US, and other countries."