@RickO posted:I believe in 2021 thats a given. I didn't think that needed clarification.
"The factory, run by the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, employs about 350,000 people and produces about half of the worlds I Phones. In the busy summer months before the fall release of a new iPhone, the factory produces 500,000 phone a day or up to 350 a minute."
They "might" make more phones in one day than than Lionel has made locomotives in 100 years.
That is very true, it is a mass market. The thing is, given how big that market is, they are likely applying all kinds of lean production techniques to it and the like, the cost of quality (or bad quality) in a market like that is orders of magnitude more than in our little world..put it this way, no one in this market competes on quality. If Iphones had high defect rates or they had a lot of phones fail inspection it is a huge cost of quality issue, it would be expensive to fix them and it also would kill their reputation, which is the bigger cost (just ask the US auto industry, that to this day still has the reputation of producing lesser quality cars, no matter what the reality is, perception is reality when it comes to consumer goods).
