Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Friday, May 27th, and we're talking tech, trying to explain just how an iPhone winds up in a customer's hand.

I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined on Skype by fool.com senior technology

specialist and knower of all things Apple Evan new. Evan how's it going?

Pretty good.

Good Friday.

Yeah, yeah, right before a nice little three-day weekend, we will not be doing a show on Monday

listeners, just so you know.

So enjoy your Memorial Day barbecues.

Unfortunately, you're going to have a Spotify

playlist going or something like that you won't be able to have a new episode of IF

to enjoy the brats and beer and whatnot. So we're wrapping up

product life cycle week here on industry focus and we're going to do a little discussion of everyone's favorite consumer electronics device or at least my personal favorite consumer electronics device. I know you're also a big fan, Evan, the iPhone.

And just namely how it gets into consumers hands. A lot of people, you know,

in the earlier episode this week have kind of followed a chronological approach of the background from start to finish.

We're going to kind of do the reverse.

We're going to talk about the intermediary that assembled everything and then get into some of the

individual suppliers that

provide those products and the components to the assemblies.

So Evan, I've seen that estimates that roughly 90% of the iPhone comes from outside the US. You think that's about right? that I mean they have other products that are made here like the Mac Pro but as far as the

iPhone goes it's mostly abroad yeah. And I don't know how much that really is

different than the component breakdown in the past you know maybe in like the early 90s, mid 90s for, you know, standard

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