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Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations

Posted by timothy on from the wishful-thinking dept.

pigrabbitbear writes with an update to the story, based on a DigiTimes report, that iPhone maker Foxconn would be opening a new factory in the U.S. "Foxconn makes a lot of stuff, but as it's one of Apple primary manufacturing partners, lots of people jumped to the salacious conclusion that a U.S.-based Foxconn factory could finally produce an American-made iPhone. Foxconn denied the DigiTimes report today. A company spokeswoman told CNET that the company actually 'already has multiple facilities based in the U.S.' but that 'there are no current plans to expand our operations there at this time.' Foxconn doesn't make iPhones in the existing U.S. factories, and they don't plan to."

6 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Re:slightly off-topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    What company is named "Fruit of The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil"?

  2. Re:Lots of gullible people, like slashdot by JustOK · · Score: 4, Informative

    Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. company

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  3. Re:A "salacious" report? by Tim+the+Gecko · · Score: 4, Informative

    But of course!

    1. lustful or lecherous.

    2. (of writings, pictures, etc.) obscene; grossly indecent.

    Some people harbor the fallacious belief that Slashdot has editors.

  4. Re:slightly off-topic by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh, hello, because "FOX"conn is the English name of a Chinese company? It's just a trade name. In Chinese it means something like "wealthy healthy scholar technology group". The company's real name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. where Hon is a kind of goose and Hai means ocean. Jeez, for someone who supposedly thinks a lot, you sure don't do much thinking outside the box.

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  5. Re:slightly off-topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    It has nothing to do with foxes, look at the name in Chinese. Fushikang, which sounded like Foxconn to some Taiwanese secretary with half-assed English skills. Probably I was her teacher and banging her back in the early 90s in Taipei. http://www.foxconn.com/images/Foxconn.gif

  6. Re:slightly off-topic by Scarletdown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Afterall, the most successful tech company stateside is named after the fruit that caused Man's expulsion from paradise according to the bible.

    There are no references within canon Christian or Jewish mythology that identifies what the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil actually was.

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