If the iPhone is made in China by order of Apple, then Apple is not a manufacturer, but who then, how to correctly formulate the role of Apple?

Question

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In China, production as a service is the cheapest, China is a global manufacturer. Here Apple orders the assembly of its iPhones and everything else from parts purchased ordered from Sony (cameras), which is also likely to assemble these cameras in China, because labor is cheap in China.
Actually, Apple, as it were, is not a manufacturer, but who then? Developer? He came up with, made a couple of dozen copies of the new phone in his own small workshop to check how it works, whether it works exactly and if exactly, then China is already making tons for this entire divine planet.

Answer 1

The name should correspond to the essence, that is, individually, it is Apple who are the designers, and that is how they should be called, and it seems that they themselves call themselves that, "designed by apple in california assembled in china", and the word "developer" fits worse, they have there should be much more innovation in technology and software, but they don’t do very well with this, they are more fixated on design, like Google.
Another option: outsourcing customer.

Answer 2

In your opinion, it turns out that milk is produced not in factories, but in cows, so the dairy should be renamed into a milk collector or an official representative of cows on the market?