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The rest will go into other Apple products, though Apple's description singles out only the Duo by name. The company framed the deal as part of a push to source more parts in the US.\n\nThe key phrase is \"up to.\" That is a ceiling, not a purchase order, and the minimum Apple is guaranteeing Perryman has not been disclosed. Spread evenly over three years, the ceiling works out to about $33M a year. That is a modest figure for a company of Apple's size, and a meaningful contract for a family-owned supplier.\n\nTitanium itself is not new to Apple. The company has used it in iPhone frames since the iPhone 15 Pro, so the story here is where the metal comes from, not what it is. Domestic sourcing announcements are also a familiar genre in Apple's playbook, and they tend to be easier to announce than to scale.\n\nThe number to watch is the one missing from the announcement: how much of that $100M Apple is actually obliged to spend.","[\"apple\",\"iphone-duo\",\"supply-chain\",\"titanium\"]","2026-10-20T12:49:39.000Z","2026-10-20T13:15:38.031Z","2026-10-20T13:15:38.190Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the meta phrase 'in the material we have' (state plainly that Apple has not disclosed the guaranteed purchase amount or share of its titanium supply), and either drop or source the unsupported claims that titanium is already in earlier iPhones and that $33M a year is a 'modest line item', since neither appears in the source.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Fix two remaining overreaches: the line that a purchase cap 'commits Apple to nothing beyond what it chooses to buy' is asserted as fact and contradicts the draft's own point that the guaranteed amount is undisclosed, so say only that the minimum is unknown; and the dek's claim that the deal 'covers the casing' overstates the body and source, which say only that some of the titanium goes into the iPhone Duo casing and the rest into other products.","consumer-tech",[36,37,38,39],"apple","iphone-duo","supply-chain","titanium",[41,44],{"name":42,"url":43},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fapple-perryman-titanium-iphone-duo",{"name":45,"url":46},"MacRumors","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.macrumors.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F20\u002Fapple-touts-iphone-duo-18-pro-parts-made-in-usa\u002F",0,{"sections":49},[50,55,60,65,70,75,79,84,89,94,99,104,109,113],{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"AI","ai",7041,"2026-10-20T13:54:04.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Security","security",1015,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Policy","policy",546,"2026-10-20T13:11:23.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Deals","deals",536,"2026-10-20T15:55:20.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Hardware","hardware",271,"2026-10-20T15:25:03.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":34,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Consumer Tech",252,"2026-10-20T16:04:13.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Science","science",207,"2026-10-20T12:50:00.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Startups","startups",135,"2026-10-20T11:00:00.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Software","software",134,"2026-10-20T14:57:15.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",119,"2026-10-20T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"General","general",88,"2026-10-20T09:36:16.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"Gaming","gaming",80,"2026-10-20T13:24:49.000Z",{"name":110,"slug":111,"count":112,"latest_published_at":59},"Reviews","reviews",38,{"name":114,"slug":115,"count":116,"latest_published_at":117},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]