“Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reportedly landed orders for 10.1-inch tablet PCs from Amazon with shipments to begin in 2012, while Quanta Computer has begun shipping a 7-inch model to Amazon,” Yenting Chen and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“In addition to the new tablet PC orders, Foxconn currently is also likely to produce 12 million units of Kindles for Amazon, and 38-40 million units of iPads as well as 80-85 million iPhones for Apple a year, the sources indicated,” Chen and Shen report.
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Does anyone really care who makes this stuff on a daily basis?
Yes. Especially the numbers of units.
It ain’t jobless Americans, so no news there.
Baloney.
These are the same guys that said ipad 2 would be delayed and release in June.
the whole stats they come out with is drawn from you know where. The Am\azon estimates are downright ridiculous and why would Foxconn risk losing apple’s business.
I agree that the Kindle numbers are WAY too high, but I don’t think Apple would drop Foxconn just because they make Kindles too.
No but they would drop them if they gave out stats about Apple production quantities. I think that that is what federico was referring to.
80 metre iPhones — thats huge!