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chatmasta
on June 21, 2013
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Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and so...
No previous experience, except for manufacturing the iPhone.
jisaacstone
on June 21, 2013
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That and nearly every phone/computer. Anyway my guess is they will start by tackling the low end - replacing all those candybar nokia's &c that are still everywhere in Africa and Asia with a cheap, high-quality smartphone.
czhiddy
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Not so much manufacturing - the chips/cameras/flex/cases/etc are all made somewhere else.
Foxconn is an army of cheap Chinese laborers who perform the final assembly and testing.
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