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Could someone please comment on Foxconn's overall strategy here?

They are trying to take on Apple AND Google/Android AND Amazon AND Microsoft?

With no previous experience in the field?

(I'm sure most of the 3000 hires are for app development - that makes much more sense.)

No previous experience, except for manufacturing the iPhone.

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.

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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