Apple iPhone Global Products

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Mind Map on Apple iPhone Global Products, created by Amelia Williams on 28/05/2020.
Amelia Williams
Mind Map by Amelia Williams, updated more than 1 year ago
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Apple iPhone Global Products
  1. INPUTS Raw materials
    1. Example: Coltan
      1. Holds and transmits electrical signals
        1. Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC
          1. Coltan smuggled into countries to pay for weapons
            1. Environmental impact: forests cleared, habitat of lowland gorillas
              1. Few jobs in DRC - opportunity for poor people to earn money
            2. Mining controlled by armed gangs
            3. OUTPUTS Products sold all over the world in Apple Stores and other retail outlets
              1. PROCESSES Designed and developed in the USA
                1. PROCESSES Foxconn Factory Shenzen, China
                  1. Workers aged 17-31
                    1. From poor, rural villages
                      1. Families often live in one room and have never seen an iPhone/iPad
                      2. Want work experience and income
                        1. Get paid $2 per hour
                          1. Live in 8-person dorms
                            1. Move to cities for jobs
                              1. Help support their families
                      3. Make 93 million iPhones and 94 million iPads in one year
                        1. Two explosions of aluminium dust killed 4 and injured 77
                          1. 5 days and 325 sets of hands to assemble one iPad
                            1. Suicides and suicide nets installed
                              1. Tiring work
                                1. 12 hour shifts with 2 one - hour meal breaks
                                  1. Work in silence
                                  2. Assembly lines assemble and package by hand in 141 steps
                                  3. Owned by a Taiwanese Company
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