Who Makes The Apple Iphone?

Who Makes the Apple iPhone?NameCourseTutor’s NameDateCase Discussion Who Makes Apple iPhoneAn overarching theme of the article is the conflict of national interests with business strategyof taking advantage of specialization in different geographic regions.Business strategy is informed by pursuit of competitive advantage arising from economic, geographic, and demographic factors. The US has comparative advantage in expertise and technological innovation. Accompanying this advantage is comparative disadvantage related to cost of labour and access to raw materials. China and other developing economies are disadvantaged in technological innovation but have significant comparative advantage in the cost of labor and availability of raw materials. Therefore, Apple has developed a strategy of developing a globalized value chain that locates specializedroles in certain regions of the globe based on their comparative advantage for the role. The result is that Apple iPhone production system is a network ofspecializedproduction sites guided by strategic advantage of each site CITATION Fri14 \l 7177 (Friedli, Mundt, & Thomas, 2014). In Ferdow’s framework of site competences, the US is the lead production site for Apple iPhone because it contributes technology, innovation, and expertise. This makes the