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A lot of Grok answers. Looks like ballpark is 350-400k per plane. If average is $1,000 a phone, worth about $1.75B to $2.0B across all 5 planes.
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i’m not sure if it’s 747 actually. here full article: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/mob
they did it final week of march , so should be in clear for that batch timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/mob
iphone box takes up ~1/6th a cubic foot, and a 747-400 cargo plane has ~26,000 cubic ft of cargo space, so 156,000 phones per plane, times five planes is 780,000 iphones
given they sell 60 million iPhones in the US a year, it’s like 5 days of iPhones
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Grok says around 375,000 per flight, with weight the limiting factor. That means nearly 1.9 million in total.
To figure out how many iPhones can fit in a Boeing 747, we need to make some reasonable assumptions and calculations based on available data. Let’s break it down step by step.
First, consider the iPhone’s size. Let’s use the iPhone 14 as a reference (since it’s a recent model as
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This is why they don’t ship with power bricks. It was about the planes
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I wonder what the phone call was like.
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Five airplanes full??
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Apparently the real case study is why is making one iPhone more expensive per unit than the making 1 million.
Apple sells an iPhone for over $1000. It probably cost them about $350 to have it made in China. So even a 100% tariff wouldn’t double the cost of the phone.
As a first order approximation, iPhone weighs about half a pound (a bit less for the phone itself.) A 747-8F can carry around 300k lb. So, about 600k. Perhaps Somewhat less if including boxes and accessories. You'd be limited to around 80% fuel load, though.
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If all 2,819,767 iPhones transported on five planes were iPhone 16 Pros priced at $1,099 each, the total cost of the phones would be approximately $3.1 billion. Adding the estimated $4 million transportation cost, the total expense would still be dwarfed by potential tariff
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I’d say half of plane I.D. is about 2 meter and length is about 60 meters so that’s about 800 square meters and I would say half to 3/4 of space. A box of an iPhone is about 0.0003 square meters so about 1-2 million I would say.
What was the value of the tariff they avoided and what’ll Trump do about it?
A lot and nothing is my guess.
Apparently the real life limit to this is the max weight of freight of the plane.
Fly the iPhones in without the packaging, those you can ship later, I'd imagine you can stuff quite a bit of iPhones into a plane that way.
Full question is - how many iphones you can fit in 747 when sh$t has already hit fan!
Apple can also market travel tours for Americans to take advantage of the China 10-day visa-free policy and make iPhone or other purchases at their flagship stores in China. No tariffs!
Nice to know Apple leverages the same techniques as my parents when they bring cheese into the country.
consulting interviews dont ask these kinds of innocuous questions anymore btw
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Apple has been flying iPhones since the beginning. The cost of inventory sitting on a cargo ship is more than the cost of airfreight.
There was an article a while ago about a 747 holding 500k iPhone before removing the chargers, the I guess it could be closer to a million/plane given that the package is significantly closer
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