This image of a changing and strained relationship between Apple and Foxconn has manifested in other ways. Before the12-inch MacBookwas released, Apple accused Foxconn of giving Google a tour of a factory that produced the metal frames for the device. When Apple asked Foxconn for visitor logs ...
Bloomberg Businessweek publishes a lengthy profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, who has built his Taiwan-based manufacturing company into a major player in the computing and consumer electronics industries and become Apple's primary manufacturing partner for a broad array of its devices. The interesti...
The author discusses an issue concerning the relationship between Apple Inc. and Foxconn Electronics Inc. She highlights the complicated relationships between electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original equipment manufacturers (OEM). Critical factors such as outsourcing, bill of materials (BOM),...
Apple’s relationship with Foxconn is so extensive that the Taiwanese firm has been building factories exclusively to assemble Apple products, according to Helen Chiang, an analyst with research firm IDC. This is done to meet Apple’s demand for secrecy regarding its products. In contr...
Acquiring Sharp is expected to further fortify Foxconn's relationship with Apple, allowing it to sell displays to the iPhone maker as well as assembly services. Currently, Sharp supplies LCD displays used in a number of Apple product lines, and Foxconn assembles a majority of its devices...
Every time US jobs comes up, there are posters who say US workers make too much, are too lazy, want vacations and retirement, are incompetent, etc. I think they are paid employees of either Apple or Foxcon. The iPhone costs about $6 in labor. If it cost twice or three times...
I found this article fascinating and well-balanced considering it did talk quite openly about Foxconn's problems with its labor force. But what's REALLY scary is that Foxconn makes a huge fraction of the consumer electronics products sold out there. Besides many Apple products, I believe...
While Foxconn is a massive company that helps other companies manufacture and assemble their products, it’s safe to say that the company is usually associated with Apple. Both companies appear to have a very mutually beneficial relationship where Foxconn handles the bulk of Apple’s manufacturing ...
Nvidia's GB200 system is currently the world's most powerful AI computing vehicle. It follows that Apple would want to utilize Foxconn's resources to power its own. Watch the Latest from AppleInsider TV However, Foxconn's relationship with Nvidia could potentially be the reason it c...
The first thing Weir’s report got right was its handling of two key points that would have been wrong to ignore: He disclosed Apple’s close relationship with Disney, parent company of ABC, the network that airsNightline. (Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was Disney’s la...