>But once there is one shining example, then (partly because of the competition, partly because of the numbers of people) the momentum is strong and only gets l

>But once there is one shining example, then (partly because of the competition, partly because of the numbers of people) the momentum is strong and only gets larger. IT outsourcing giants are now obsolete - thanks to American recovery in software through cloud computing platform companies like AWS. >This is potentially one of those events and has the potential to catalyze high end devices manufacturing in India leading to other second order effects of expertise in other hardware manufacturing I don't think it will change much. All high level process engineers will be Chinese in foxcons new plant. Workers will learn a few process but foxconn factories usually have very high level of automation. I don't expect much technology transfer in this.