This is the number one question I get asked
and the answer is...
We'll get to the full answer shortly
But first I wanted to give you a few updates
about strange parts
The last month has been a total whirlwind for me
I released my second video
To a huge response again
Thank you
I did a ton of interviews
And I even a chance
To do my first live studio taping in front an audience
And that was pretty cool
But first
You know what I wanna do?
What?
I wanna take a gander over to the another part of the studio
So we can learn all about drilling into an iPhone
This is cool
Alright let's...let's take a walk down to the fun side of the studio
Ohhhhhh
I haven't been here in so long
Oh we're here with Scotty ... Scotty Alan
I also did my first YouTube collaboration
with China's first Youtuber
Well I mean most people that know you know you as the iPhone guy
Yeah
So I'd though what we do is take this opportunity to just tell people who you are and give them a bit of a back-story
Yeah totally
So they don't just call you hey it's that iPhone guy
Totally! Yeah
Check out the description for a link to that.
And I flew around the world!
I visited 4 countries, 6 cities, 3 countries I've never been to before
and I gave two talks
One at the Noisebridge Hackerspace in San Francisco
Where I am a member
This is a very fast pick and place machine , it's a turret pick and place machine
and one at the Web Expo conference in Prague.
I haven't designed that many circuit boards before
and
if your like me this looks really intimidating
and I spent a ton of time researching new stories and shooting more video
but in the process, I got totally burned out
so I had to take a pretty mandatory 1 to 2 week break here and recharge my batteries
but I'm back in here Shenzhen, back in the swing of things
and a bunch of people have been asking me
Scotty, why don't you release videos more frequently?
And the truth is these big huge videos take a lot longer to make than you might think
but there's a lot of other stuff I'm excited to talk about
and share with you guys
So I'd thought I'd make some smaller videos like this one
while I work on the bigger stuff.
This is going to be a bit of an experiment so leave a comment with what you like
But let's get down to the main question for this video.
I've been getting a lot of emails
and comments and messages from people with all sorts of questions
uh...and
Unfortunately, I... I'm a little bit buried and while I do try and read everything
I haven't been able to give everybody a detailed response
and that makes me a little sad.
um.. But a lot of people ask similar or the questions
and so I thought rather then giving everybody a rushed answer
you know one on one
Maybe I could sit down and make a nicer video
where I could go into more depth and really answer it in the detail that does it justice
So the number one question I get is how much did it cost to you to make your own iPhone 6S
and there are a couple answers here
I know the answer everybody wants which is $300. Iit costs $300 for the parts that
went into the actual iPhone 6S I bought. Maybe a little bit more, but it in
that range. But that's not the full story. I spent a lot more than that I probably
spent over $1,000 on replacements for parts that I broke on tools on buying
the wrong part and then having me go back and get the right part I bought
some books things like that so while in the end the parts ended up costing me
$300, nobody I know that's tried to make their own iPhone like I have has gotten
away without having to buy extra stuff. Somewhere between $300 and $1000 is
probably what you can expect to spend if you come here to Shenzhen and try and
build your own iPhone like I did but I don't think this is the question that
people actually want an answer to. I think what a lot of people really want
to know is is building my own iPhone the cheapest way to get an iPhone and the
answer is no not really and let me give you a little bit more
context for why I think that so this same phone that I built when I built it
cost $600 new in the Apple store but a similar used iPhone would be like 250 to
350 dollars and if you think about it what I built at the end of the day
really is a refurbished used phone the most important part, the logic board, is a
used part that came out of a working phone manufactured by Apple so you know
while my phone might look a little bit nicer on the outside than your average
used phone at the end of the day it really is a used phone so my
recommendation is if you really want an iPhone and you don't have a lot of money
to spend look for a good used phone. Look for a used phone that's maybe you know a
couple of models behind you'll be able to inspect it make sure everything works
and you won't run the risk of breaking a really expensive part like breaking a
logic board which would dramatically increase the cost for you and probably
make you really sad but if you're like me and you really want to understand how
the side of an iPhone works building an
iPhone or repairing an iPhone is a great way to do it
so that's your motivation go for it. Now I've had some people who are trying to
build their own iPhones message me and say the one part that they're having a
hard time finding is the logic board which is you know really the heart of
the phone it's essentially the motherboard of the phone and
unfortunately I don't have a ton of great answers here you know the people
that I buy from aren't really set up to sell online they only really sell in
person they're very small they don't speak English
also I'm not particularly interested in starting a business around exporting use
iPhone parts out of China the customs issues are pretty tricky there and just
not something I'm interested in doing the best answer I can give you is to
look at eBay but if you've got a better answer than that go ahead and leave it
in the comments just don't post unrelated stuff I'm gonna delete it and
I'll probably ban you from leaving comments in the future and if you do end
up making your own iPhone send me a picture there are links on ways to reach
me in the in the description below well that about does it for this time guys I
did want to say a huge thank you to everybody that sent me story suggestions
and ideas I've tried to read everything but I really haven't been able to
respond to it all I'm sorry do feel free to keep sending me stuff I do try and
read everything I have to say I'm a little bit scared to release this video
it's not a big huge epic project like the first two and so if you like it show
me some love in the comments and if you've got more questions you'd like me
to answer leave those in the comments as well I'll read them all I'm Scotty from
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