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Samsung doesn't have to move plants to China to benefit from the lower wages, they can simply contract Foxconn to assemble the devices. And they do, according t
by jkn 14y ago
Samsung doesn't have to move plants to China to benefit from the lower wages, they can simply contract Foxconn to assemble the devices. And they do, according to this NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-i...
The ExtremeTech article makes a lot of calculations based on the assumption that Samsung assembles the Galaxy S3 itself, but they don't provide any evidence of that.
- mrsebastian 14y agoThe Reuters article cites a source (a Korean newspaper) saying that the S3s are being made at Samsung's South Korea smartphone factory (which is in Gumi, I think).