Stages of iPhone production by

Sites

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-08 17:50:46 UTC

https://www.mechead.com/manufacturing-journey-iphone-factory-floor-retail-store/

https://www.hardware.com.br/artigos/como-e-produzido-um-iphone-entenda-as-etapas-do-processo/

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-components-of-an-iPhone-and-what-is-the-estimated-value-of-each-component#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20most%20important,the%20other%20sensors%20and%20circuitry.

https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/iPhone.pdf

https://www.androidauthority.com/where-is-the-iphone-made-3234349/

https://backlinko.com/iphone-users

Stages of production - Time line

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-15 17:46:47 UTC

According to Apple, the iPhone time-line is:

Mining
Foundries and refineries
Components
Final assembly
Stores
Consumption
Recycling

Iphone 7 components

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-15 17:47:56 UTC

Iphone X components

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-15 17:48:30 UTC

1. Resource Extraction

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-15 17:52:34 UTC

2. Production

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-15 17:52:34 UTC

3.Components

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-15 17:53:09 UTC

Components

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-15 17:57:43 UTC

Display assembly
Battery
Logic board (motherboard)
Rear camera
Front camera
Speakers
Microphone
Taptic Engine

Home button/fingerprint sensor

Wi-Fi antenna

5. Stores

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-15 18:05:12 UTC

Mine matterials on iPhone

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-15 18:22:28 UTC

Aluminium.
Iron.
lithium.
gold.
copper.

Examples of the Impacts of Mining

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-17 23:00:36 UTC

Bauxite mining is essential to the production of the iPhone because is what we use to do aluminum is one of the materials from the iPhone and comes in terms of global warming potential because its production "is a significant producer of global perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions, which are highly potent greenhouse gasses known for their long-lasting presence in the atmosphere".

The production of stainless steel causes a very bad impact on the environment, such as emissions of dust and particles into the air, discharges of water from production plants, and direct and indirect energy consumption during production, also it creates landfill waste during the process. lithium extraction is from salt-flat brines through a process of evaporation and chemical recovery. Its extraction consumes significant amounts of water and energy and also lithium mining can pollute the air and water with chemicals and heavy metals.

Foundries and refineries process

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-19 00:16:28 UTC

After the primary resources are mined, they go to the foundries and refineries to be transformed into another material that later will be used for iPhone construction.

Impacts of Foundries and Refineries

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-19 00:24:24 UTC

Iron foundries, for example, cause the most CO2-emitting industrial activity in the world. Also, it demands a lot of energy consumption. According to theworldcounts.com "Steel production requires large inputs of coke (a sort of coal) which is extremely damaging to the environment. Coke ovens emit air pollution such as naphthalene that is highly toxic and can cause cancer" and it shows that the transformation of iron into steel has a cost.

What The Image Shows

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-25 22:27:54 UTC

The components that were used in the iPhone 7 were more expensive than the products used in the iPhone X because Apple thought that putting them cheaper was good for them. We can see that in the Iphone 7, the Display was 25g and in the Iphone X was only 4g, the stainless steel that the Iphone 7 used was only 26g, and in the Iphone X was 58g, they do this because the expensive products were getting expensive by the time so they started to decrease the expensive products and increase the cheap products.

Impacts

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-25 22:49:50 UTC

The impact that the construction of the iPhone causes on the environment is mainly the extraction of products from the Earth's coast in large quantities, this extraction is carried out in Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which ends up making a country that is already poor lose even its products on the Earth's coast.

7. Recycling

gabrielmassotti — 2024-04-28 01:51:07 UTC

The iPhone has a project to make its iPhones renewable, recyclable, and transport with low carbon emissions and clean energy, this project is called “Apple 2030” and as the name suggests the project is scheduled to end in 2030. Apple wants to do 5 steps to make this project work, the design and origin, the production, packaging and transport, the use, and the recovery of the product.

4. Final Assembly

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-28 02:08:43 UTC

After obtaining all the materials, they are sold to the automakers with whom Apple has a partnership, these in turn are located largely in Asia, with emphasis on the main automaker which is Foxconn, where all cell phones are assembled manually by employees

Foxconn X Sweatshops

pedropillar — 2024-04-28 20:14:37 UTC

Stores

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-29 11:01:04 UTC

Apple Stores are headquartered in California, however, the raw materials are sourced in Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which causes an environmental impact as raw materials are increasingly scarce in Africa, after which they send these raw materials to China because labor is cheaper so after manufacturing the product they send it to the headquarters and the headquarters does the work of exporting and selling it all over the world.

6. Consumption

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-29 15:50:39 UTC

iPhone Consumption

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-29 15:53:29 UTC

According to backlinko.com: Apple’s iPhone claims a 23% global share of the smartphone market. The iPhone has seen at least 190 million annual shipments each year since 2014. There are an estimated 1.334 billion active iPhone users worldwide

Impacts

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-29 16:15:17 UTC

The excessive use of iPhones makes people lose health, getting TDAH. This excessive use can harm the vision of the people. The marketing introduces people to use iPhone, like the new things that make it interesting to buy and then use a lot.

Apple Perceived and Planned obsolescence

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-29 17:40:16 UTC

iPhone is an example of perceived obsolescence because the product is made to last for a certain time and then be changed for a new one. Apple makes the old iPhones stop receiving updates. Also, it has a big marketing process for making people buy new ones and change their iPhones even if the old ones are working well. The marketing uses big updates, not only physically but in the interior of the iPhone, improving the experience of using the iPhone.

Stages

nicolascosta18 — 2024-04-29 17:44:25 UTC

Resource Extraction
Production
Distribution
Consumption
Dispose