Not too long ago there was an engineer who lost one of the prototypes for the new iphone. He sure wasn’t in the US.
If he is dealing with prototypes it would seem to indicate that not only aren’t they manufactured in the US. They aren’t even fully designed in the US.
Is Apple even an American company?
IIRC, that Chinese engineer went to the roof and “jumped” off.
Not long after, the missing phone (one of ten prototypes) was found a short time later.
Is Apple even an American company?
Ummmm..., good question... let's ask... does anyone know if Cupertino is in the United States?
Just hold on a bit, while we wait for the answer... LOL...
Then, next, we could send some people over to Cupertino and see if it's just an empty office building... you know... a false-front operation or something like that... :-)
They are designed in the US. Apple does work with the foreign company to implement the manufacture and maintain quality control. Naturally, the manufacturer would ship initial-run phones back to Apple for testing. The Chinese person in question was responsible for shipping a small number of those iPhones to Apple and lost track of one of them.
If is an American company. Apple products are designed in California.