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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by objclxt on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:18PM (#25584321)
> Assembling iPhones is trivial

I think it might be you who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Many startups have tried to enter the consumer electronics space because they thought assembly would be “trivial”, only to find that once the first EVT samples start coming back from China it is anything but trivial.

The tolerances on an iPhone are some of the best around. People don’t always appreciate just how strict the tolerances are for hardware assembly until they’ve tried to do it themselves.

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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by birdyrooster on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:56PM (#25585999)
Not to mention the scale of the operation allows them to fit parts with varying tolerances together in a way that causes the best fitment when put together while having less waste.
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