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Apple's Machinery / Manufacturing the iphone

 Today we scanned an article published in 2012 in the New York Times, and written by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher.
Here are the points we think we understood:
  • the iPhone project lasted for (a duré) 6 weeks.
  • the components in the iphone came from many different countries
  • these components were assembled / put together in China
  • Steve Jobs made a test with an iPhone in his pocket
  • S. Jobs demanded a glass screen.
  • S. Jobs didn't want the screen to come from China, so he had it made in the USA.
  • S. Jobs wanted to have the screen come from the USA, but it was too expensive.
  • This text is about the period before the iPhone was released.

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there is apple society, wants to reimagine iPhone, wants to... cost... reduce the costs of the iPhone
article write in nytimes in 2012 by xxx
the text talks about the project of iPhone durant / during six weeks
different compoenents of the phone come from different country, principally from china, taiwan... asia... they're wxxxxx assembled put together in china
mr jobs made a test, an iPhone in his pocket, he saw a few times the glass was scratch, he wanted a stronger iPhone
mr job demanded glass screens 
this text is before the iphone, when it was just a project
jobs thinks the glass screen in china wasn't the highest, he made the screen by another industry specialised in glass (USA)
he wants to replace plastic screen by glass screen
lots of composant of the iPhone come from semiconductors Korea... chipset, europe, metal (asia / africa...)
he wanted to have gla screen  from USA... but it was way too expensive... so he found another solution
in 2007

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