While more recent developments in Brazil are both outside my wheelhouse and, in the context of iPhones, within this sub's 20-year rule, you might be interested in this recent answer of mine examining the unique features of economic policy in Argentina, which was historically very close to Brazil in terms of economic thought ("Developmentalism," a key school of thought for these kinds of policies, is often contextualized with both Argentina and Brazil examined together).

Historically, South American economists and politicians have been large proponents of what economists call "Import-Substitution" policy, which I examine in the answer linked above. What these policies purport to do is protect domestic producers from foreign competition, the argument then being that the protections (that is to say, the tariffs making foreign goods unappealing) are lifted once domestic industry had developed enough as to be able to compete with foreign goods. Kathryn Sikkink at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, in her 1991 book Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina, examines how these political ideas that took hold at the highest levels of government in South America's two largest countries, Argentina and Brazil, would go on to influence later economic performance.