Foxconn to build 5 additional factories for upcoming Apple products
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The factories are slated to build upcoming Apple products, as well as notebooks, batteries, and other electronic gizmos. The deal probably needs to finish going through before we jump to any hard conclusions, but it seems that Foxconn is finding a business environment it likes in Brazil.
As Foxconn expands internationally it also gains leverage on China and everyone else, as they may find themselves bidding against another country to try and land (or keep) a Foxconn factory in their economy. Brazil, for example, provided tax breaks to Foxconn to land the initial iPad assembly factory. One can presume that whatever negotiations remain will to some extent include what local governments are willing to offer in order to secure one of the five new factories.
One final question – what new Apple products are going to be built from their under-construction LCD-manufacturing plant? The presumption has been iPads, but it appears that the iPad 3 has already sourced its LCD screens. Could this be where the glass for an Apple iTV comes from? We’ll probably find out later this year.
source: Folha.com via BGR
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20 Comments
5. theBankRobber posted on 02 Feb 2012, 16:09 1
Well I guess the US should just get used to working at places like Walmart as other countries are getting more and more work.
7. jmoita2 posted on 02 Feb 2012, 16:35 5
If it continues this way,we are going to be applying for worker visas in China...
Wouldnt that be ironic???
12. gallitoking posted on 02 Feb 2012, 17:42 4
sorry Scott H.. you made a very informative article about the sucess of a company that wil bring jobs to Brazil and this **androids... ruin it with their dumb comments... i apologize but here in PA ** androids are the majority so things like this will continue to happen...
13. blazee posted on 03 Feb 2012, 01:22 2
Maybe this successful American company should create more jobs in America, especially in the our economic downfall...Oh wait i forgot, then they wouldn't be able to under pay and mistreat their workers.
15. atheisticemetic posted on 03 Feb 2012, 09:03 2
you say things that make me want to throw stones at you gallitoking
grow a brain...
17. gallitoking posted on 03 Feb 2012, 10:38 0
ok lets analized that for a second... brains dont grow... second you probably trow like a girl so.. you want to rephrase your comment again
18. remixfa posted on 04 Feb 2012, 12:18 1
thats not true at all gallito.
as you learn and continue to learn, the folds of your brain increase in both amount and depth, leading to an over all increase in the surface area of the gray matter in your brain... aka, your brain grows. If you dont use your brain to learn and stay active, over time the opposite can happen which is effectively your brain shrinking.
I dont throw like a girl, can i take a few tosses? :)
19. atheisticemetic posted on 07 Feb 2012, 00:21 0
smh....brains dont grow?
i liked your chicken icon better
16. ZayZay posted on 03 Feb 2012, 10:23 0
Even if I was an iphone lover, I believe these jobs belong in America. I know everyone is out to make a lot of money, but come on. Built 1 or 2 factories in the US.
