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  • letsgo@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldA 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
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    3 days ago

    Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn’t mean that’s the only or best way. With suitable “design for manufacture”, pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.