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You do realize that Apple is one making the realy money from iPhones and iPads, not the contract manufacturers, right?

• gscott 11y ago
  This is not exactly true the contract manufacturers are being paid to learn to make their own phones and they are. http://www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-aims-to-fashion-its-own-brands-1403907564 http://www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-aims-to-fashion-its-own-...
  • rhizome 11y ago
    Now all they need is a billion dollar marketing department.
    • 1stop 11y ago
      It's called Huawei, or Xiaomi.
      • adventured 11y ago
        Xiaomi isn't doing very well these days. Their growth fell off a cliff last year, and is very unlikely to recover to the brief glory days. The smartphone market is going to grow extremely slow from here forward. Xiaomi will end up as just another irrelevant smartphone maker, in a heap of dozens of them like HTC or Motorola. http://fortune.com/2016/01/15/xiaomi-smartphone-sales-fall-short/ http://fortune.com/2016/01/15/xiaomi-smartphone-sales-fall-s...
        • gscott 11y ago
          The Chinese are definitely focused on markets with new growing cellphone adoption rather then the US where it is hyper competitive. I don't believe their success here is an indicator of there overall wellbeing.
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  • sharetea 11y ago
    Foxconn is a Taiwanese company
    • 1stop 11y ago
      ... The factories are still in China, meaning Chinese are gaining the skills and thus creating an industry for themselves
      • khuey 11y ago
        "Making the physical iPhone" is not a very lucrative industry. "Designing and marketing the iPhone and its software ecosystem" is.