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iPhone: a global product
- iPhone: A global product At first sight, we can affirm that iPhone is a global product because of the material flows.
- Indeed, thanks to the help of the first and second documents, we can observe that all the components which constitute a iPhone 4;4S or 6 are not made in the same country.
- If we look at the first document, we see that « all iPhones contain hundreds of parts, an estimated 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad ».
- Furthermore, we can say that the iPhones are the result of a globalized process.
- In fact, Apple Inc where the headquarters are located in Cupertino California create a new international division of labour with its worldwide relocations and investments ( for example with the FDI: Foreign Direct Investments).
- Thanks to that, the Transnational Corporation can get around trade barriers and escape trade tariffs but also reduce costs by gaining access to cheaper labour.
- That’s why the assembly of the iPhones is made in several parts of the World.
- The first documents highlights the fact that « Advanced semiconductors have come from Germany and Taiwan; memory from Korea and Japan, display panels and circuitry from Korea and Taiwan, chipsets from Europe and rare metals from Africa and Asia.
- And all of it is put together in China ».
- But, an iPhone can’t be referred to a global product just because its components come from everywhere and they are assembled in China; because if we look at the definition of a globalized product, we can see that a product is considered as a Global Product if it was made in different countries and it is spread in several parts of the world.
- Consequently, we can underline the idea that the iPhone is a global product according to the number of smartphone’s customers who use it.
- MalibuIceJanuary 201571% GOOD (7 votes)
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