iPhone 6(S)/Plus Received iPhone made in "Fountain, Colorado"?
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pdxsellers
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My X serial starts with G0 and when I searched it, it shows Assembled in US.
Maybe Apple is quietly assembling iPhones in the states. It’s possible.
Maybe Apple is quietly assembling iPhones in the states. It’s possible.
PBz
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JPack
macrumors G5
No, it isn't possible.
So you're saying Apple is lying when the packaging says Assembled in China?
If it were being assembled in U.S., it would be the biggest PR moments ever for Apple.
The lack of common sense in this thread is remarkable. It reminds me of anti-vaxxers who would rather believe YouTube clips and random webpages instead the CDC and NIH.
Then your search was proven inadequate. Because iPhones are not designated in the United States to be manufactured.
pdxsellers
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Not saying Apple is lying but the fact I searched up my serial on multiple sites, all showing Assembled in US... I find it odd.
Never once I said its true.
Bart Kela
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Highly unlikely.
Apple would have considerable newsworthy benefits from manufacturing in the USA. Also, the city itself would enjoy some tax advantages as the home to a manufacturing industry.
This is why towns/counties/states bid big time for things like Tesla battery factories.
If some company started building electronic gadgets in your town, you better believe that your city government would take maximum advantage of this. Moreover, electronics manufacturing usually results in the potential discharge of toxic waste from the manufacturing process, no kosher way to sneak around building consumer electronics.
My guess is that that FC stands for Foxconn's main plant, possibly a reused code. Another lesser possibility is a mismapped code or some other error in the product identification process.
Michael Scrip
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FC stands for:
Fools! China!
Fools! China!
eye.surgeon
macrumors 6502
I hope you're joking.
The country that builds interplanetary spacecraft, world class supercomputers, Boeing 777s, reusable rockets, nuclear submarines....doesn't have enough skilled workers to screw together a telephone.
There is only one reason iphones are built in China, and that's dirt cheap labor. And when those wages rise, suddenly China won't have enough "skilled workers" and Vietnam or Thailand or India will.
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SDColorado
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Not sure how that is possible, since Apple sold the Fountain, Colorado facility in 1996 to SCI Systems of Alabama (which later merged with California-based Sanmina Corp).
While the electronics company that purchased it continued to make Apple Computers under contract for three years, that production was moved overseas in 1999. The plant itself closed in 2007 and to the best of my knowledge, today sits vacant.
Edit: Apparently the building, which had been empty since 2007, was sold to Industrial Realty Group, LLC in 2014
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sax6575
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https://www.csbj.com/2017/08/04/fountain-seeks-to-fill-long-empty-warehouse/
The plant closed the year the original iPhone was announced/released...
Look at the year the news Apple was buying this facility broke...
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/21/business/company-news-apple-will-buy-colorado-plant.html
The plant closed the year the original iPhone was announced/released...
Look at the year the news Apple was buying this facility broke...
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/21/business/company-news-apple-will-buy-colorado-plant.html
Beenblacklisted
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SDColorado
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I am not sure what to make of the whole FC thing in the SN#, but it sure as heck wasn't made in 2017, in a factory in Fountain, CO, that has sat empty for the past decade and hadn't belonged to Apple for almost a decade before that. Not to mention that the Fountain factory never manufactured iPhones. Something isn't quite right
SDColorado
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Not unless they have re-assigned the designation. Otherwise to the best of my knowledge, C3 is still Foxxcon, Shenzhen, China
Edit: FK, F1, F2 are Foxxcon Zhengzhou, China. My old iPhone 6S+ has an F2 designation. My iPhone X is DN, Foxconn, Chengdu, China. My wife’s 6S is an FK, also Foxconn, Zhengzhou, China
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bcave098
macrumors 6502a
To be clear, the Fountain, CO plant stopped making Apple products three years after it was sold in 1996 and ultimately closed in 2007.
FWIW I just put my 8 into this site, which has an FF start to the serial number. This site lists everything else correctly but then for factory says: "FF (Refurbished?)"
I know it isn't refurbished, the site just doesn't know what factory FF is. That wiki link posted earlier doesn't list FF either, so wonder where that is.
SDColorado
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thadoggfather
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I want an iPhone made in USA
JPack
macrumors G5
Nobody's joking. Neither is Tim Cook when he spoke publicly earlier this month about Chinese manufacturing.
The United States simply doesn't have skilled workers to test, manufacture, or supply components for high-tech electronics anymore. Those who think otherwise are still living in the 1950s. If you look at AESA military radars which use solid-state transmit/receive modules, China is leading. The U.S. is fielding radars in naval vessels and jets that are half a generation behind Chinese.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: This Is the Number 1 Reason We Make iPhones in China (It's Not What You Think)
"There's a confusion about China. The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor cost. I'm not sure what part of China they go to but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago. And that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill, and the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is."
"China has moved into very advanced manufacturing, so you find in China the intersection of craftsman kind of skill, and sophisticated robotics and the computer science world. That intersection, which is very rare to find anywhere, that kind of skill, is very important to our business because of the precision and quality level that we like. The thing that most people focus on if they're a foreigner coming to China is the size of the market, and obviously it's the biggest market in the world in so many areas. But for us, the number one attraction is the quality of the people."
"The number one reason why we like to be in China is the people. China has extraordinary skills. And the part that's the most unknown is there's almost 2 million application developers in China that write apps for the iOS App Store. These are some of the most innovative mobile apps in the world, and the entrepreneurs that run them are some of the most inspiring and entrepreneurial in the world. Those are sold not only here but exported around the world."
"China has moved into very advanced manufacturing, so you find in China the intersection of craftsman kind of skill, and sophisticated robotics and the computer science world. That intersection, which is very rare to find anywhere, that kind of skill, is very important to our business because of the precision and quality level that we like. The thing that most people focus on if they're a foreigner coming to China is the size of the market, and obviously it's the biggest market in the world in so many areas. But for us, the number one attraction is the quality of the people."
"The number one reason why we like to be in China is the people. China has extraordinary skills. And the part that's the most unknown is there's almost 2 million application developers in China that write apps for the iOS App Store. These are some of the most innovative mobile apps in the world, and the entrepreneurs that run them are some of the most inspiring and entrepreneurial in the world. Those are sold not only here but exported around the world."