Re: Extremely poor
Utter tosh. Industrial design has always been in-house at Apple and that's the very important part when it comes to having things like phone screens which don't die within 24 hours.
And designing cases that can be turned into Faraday cages at the touch of a finger. Apple has absolutely no input on how screensare made (it regularly runs beauty contests and then drives a hard bargain over volumes) but it does have an impressive mastery supply chain and component QA. But, outside the silicon, Apple has largely being playing technological catch up for the last 5 years.