Post #512

The iPhone has become one of the rarest sorts of consumer products-both ubiquitous and coveted as a status object. It is also the crowning success of the trade relationship between two countries, in which American inspiration and marketing savvy met China's millions of workers, managed by contract manufacturers like Taiwan's Foxconn, to make state-of-the-art electronics. It wasn't easy to organize a workforce to assemble thousands of components into the most complex consumer product the world has ever known. Mastering this feat propelled Apple to become the first trillion-dollar company. — Breakneck by Dan Wang