The manufacturer of the iPhone will produce its own smartphones - The Point

The Point.fr – Published on 04/06/2013 at 16:51

The Taiwanese giant Foxconn, Apple subcontractor, will market under its own brand products equipped with the non-profit competitor.

When high-tech products are assembled, it is not full of contradictions. Taiwan’s Foxconn, most factories which are located in China, knows something. He who has worked for years for Apple, Dell, HP, Samsung or Nokia, has partnered with the nonprofit Mozilla goal. The latter is about to market a new type of smartphones and tablets equipped with Firefox OS software, a free and open operating system. A revolution in the world of telephony, where manufacturers are all trying to lock the user into a proprietary environment, on the model of the Apple iPhone.

Firefox OS Smartphones (for operating system, operating system) does not directly face the high end, as the Apple iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S4. At first, only entry-level models will be launched, “because this sector is poorly served,” said the Mozilla Foundation. The devices are expected to cost less than fifty dollars or 38 euros. The major manufacturers competed will therefore those who rely primarily on low and mid-range, that is to say, Nokia, HTC or LG, which, even if they have high-end models can be very powerful, they must hi the large volume of cheap devices they sell.

Foxconn wants to invest rays

Apple, meanwhile, have decided to separate, at least in part, to its partner Foxconn. The giant California would include entrusted the production of its future low cost iPhone Pegatron, another Taiwanese giant assembly, but does not aim to compete with the Apple smartphone. Apple had also suffered repeated strikes on the Foxconn Shenzhen particular sites, and had not digested the degradation of its brand that had resulted. Employees of the Chinese group denounced the “inhuman” requirements of Apple representatives to their leaders, while some were even suicide.

Foxconn’s strategy is to leave his role as subcontractor. Asus and more recently as ZTE and Huawei, assemblers want to launch products under their own brand and compete with their employers on the shelves. This thing will be done very soon to Foxconn, a tablet equipped with Firefox OS and presented Monday at Computex.