[rqtwteye]

"I mean if SpaceX is a rocket factory company, isn’t Ford a car factory company? We just don’t include factory because it’s redundant.

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I think you could call any company that tries to mass produce something a "X factory company" because from a certain scale on production and supply chains are where the real knowledge is. Apple could be called a "phone factory company".

[dylan604]

>Apple could be called a "phone factory company".

Could it? It doesn't actually make them. It hires 3rd party companies for that. Where Ford owns/operates factories that produces their products. Unless I'm confused and Ford doesn't own their factories?

[mercutio2]

Ownership doesn't seem particularly important. Apple designs the specifications, the supply chains, and the QC, leaving a few pieces of the labor supply up to partners.

Still seems like a phone factory company, even if they don't own everything soup to nuts like early auto factories tried to do.

[philistine]

They're a phone manufacturing process company.