5. If it were not for 9 rare earth minerals, we would not have the iPhone as it is: colorful, vibrating, playing music, doing all that outstanding stuff we adore. Ninety percent of the components are extracted in China.

6. The iPhone combines incompatible: its computer chip is manufactured by the Apple’s severest competitor – Samsung. Keep enemies closer than friends – this motto serves Apple at best, since the company sued Samsung in June for patent law violation and won. Thus, the cooperation between two companies looks a little weird. Apple and Samsung agreed to design and produce the next mobile processor in synergy.

7. The iPhone production is almost rocket science since it took more than 156 suppliers and 200 patents to manufacture it. iPhone patented everything in the applications and appearance of the device, its texture and assembly. Intellectual property registration protects the innovations. The list of special suppliers to iPhone, iPad, iPod demonstrated the sophisticated nature of the device.