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Making an iPad

Written by Mark Stevens on . Posted in Business, Gadgets, Technology

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Courtesy of Uber Phones

While most of us own some kind of iProduct and receive a seemingly endless amount of joy from them, seldom do we offer a second thought to the production process required to make such a magical device a reality.

There’s a popular notion that the entire device is made by machines, but that’s not the case, as you’ll see below. A Taiwanese electronics company you may or may not have heard of, Foxconn, is responsible for the production and assembly of the iPads, iPods and iPhones that have come to dominate our daily lives.

Here’s a quick look inside the Foxconn factory in China, one that employs over 200,000 people!