Quality standards: the assembly of an Android smartphone requires 12 times fewer people than that of the iPhone
Apple's key manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new head of its iPhone assembly division, Michael Chiang. Bloomberg, citing an earlier interview with Chiang, told about the quality standards that Apple and Android-smartphone manufacturers use.
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According to the new Foxconn executive, Apple requires 1,200 workers per production line and uses 12 times fewer people to assemble Android smartphones.
"For Chinese Android phones, we only have to assign 100 workers per production line, but we need 1,200 for the iPhone", Chang told Apple's strict rules.
Incidentally, Apple has the same requirements for other suppliers. For example, Samsung Display, which produces screens for the iPhone, said that the percentage of products that pass quality control is only 60%. Subsequently, the firm reached 80%, and industry observers even called 90% an impressive achievement.