I was thinking the same thing they could be creeping into an Apple competitor. I also noticed the article mentioned "tablets".
There is no doubt Foxconn has been taking notes on phone production this past decade and will now be putting it to good use, because that's how Asian companies roll.
Because American company don't roll that way, right? Say! Werner von Braun wanna get out of free jail card? We need ICBMs and you get a Space Race.
That's an easy way to lose your biggest customer and have them place their eggs in another basket too.
If Apple listened to all the business geniuses on here they, wouldn't have $200 B in cash: Don't do any business with Samsung, buy inferior more expensive products from competitors, so what if the LG screens on all your RMBPs fail. Use only TSMC - so what if Apple only sell half what they could have because TSMC haven't the capacity. Don't have anything to do with Microsoft, build your own cloud infrastructure, don't use Azure. Stop using Foxconn, find someone else. Don't have anything to do with Google - and so on, and so on, ad infinitum!
Not sure what that has to do with what we were saying honestly.
but point being, bite the hand that feeds you and expect them it stop feeding you.
Happened when Goog stole from Apple, it's happening with Samsung and could potentially happen to Foxconn.
No amount of galaxy sales would make up for the loss of Apple and no amount of Nokia sales would make up for the loss of Apple.
Why would any company (Foxconn/HMD in this case) want to reboot and invest in a feature phone business? I personally thought feature phones went the way of the Dodo a while back already.
PS. Just read redstater's explanation...if he/she's correct then this deal makes more sense now.
Microsoft's steady decline in the mobile phone business continues, as the Redmond, Wash., company announced on Wednesday that it will sell the feature phone division it acquired from Nokia to a subsidiary of manufacturer Foxconn for $350 million. ...
This would never have happened if Ballmer were still alive.
Isn't Foxconn's involvement a conflict-of-interest with their heavy involvement in iPhone assembly?
Or is it like the Samsung relationship: cooperate in one area (assembly) and compete in another area (finished products)? Or maybe it's not a COI because feature-phone are a different category than Apple's smartphones?
The ignorance your questions indicate are quite staggering
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Not sure what that has to do with what we were saying honestly.
but point being, bite the hand that feeds you and expect them it stop feeding you.
Happened when Goog stole from Apple, it's happening with Samsung and could potentially happen to Foxconn.
No amount of galaxy sales would make up for the loss of Apple and no amount of Nokia sales would make up for the loss of Apple.
It's way too much of a slippery slope.
PS. Just read redstater's explanation...if he/she's correct then this deal makes more sense now.
How is that better than when there were just 2 heavyweights (Microsoft and Nokia)?
Or 1 heavyweight (Nokia alone)?
But who knows?
If Nokia becomes a multi-billion dollar company again, Microsoft could drastically overpay for them again.