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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."

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  1. slightly off-topic by tloh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've always been curious why the manufacturing outfit is named "FOX"conn. In Chinese folklore, (which is apolitical and applies equally to mainland as well as Taiwan) foxes have a notorious reputation as agents of evil. In stories, the fox spirit, "hu li jin" often takes human form as a young, nubile, seductress and sets out to corrupt scholars and governing officials. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Afterall, the most successful tech company stateside is named after the fruit that caused Man's expulsion from paradise according to the bible.

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    1. Re:slightly off-topic by ThatsMyNick · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I am not sure if you can really split up a word like that. But in answer to your question, fox is known for in cunningness (it is the same as the west).

    2. Re:slightly off-topic by _xeno_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Although there is a reason that apples are identified as that fruit: it's a horrible Latin pun.

      Unfortunately the difference is in the diatric marks over the letter and Slashdot can't figure out how to deal with UTF-8 because they might have to look up the BIDI control characters, but basically "apple" and "evil" are both "malum" (but with a different sounding "a", I guess) in Latin.

      It can also be traced to Greek mythology, but I like the idea of it being a bad Latin pun that everyone latched on to.

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