Foxconn has begun recruiting workers for a next-gen iPhone, a Chinese-language report claimed Tuesday.
A recruitment firm that works with a Hon Hai (aka Foxconn) plant in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, has begun large-scale recruitment of workers for production of Apple's next-gen phone, according to a report in China Business News.
Mozilla reportedly will collaborate with Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, to produce a device running its Firefox operating system.
Foxconn is best known for manufacturing many of Apple's most popular products including the iPhone and iPad. However the firm has been looking to diversify away from Apple and Reuters reports that it will announce a collaboration with Mozilla on the eve of Computex.
Apple apparently has returned between five and eight million "defective" iPhones to manufacturing partner Foxconn.
That's according to a report from China Business, which has heard from a source at Foxconn that Apple isn't too pleased with the firm at the moment. If the report is true, the Cupertino company has sent back up to eight million defective iPhones to the manufacturer, describing them as "dysfunctional" and "non-compliant".
One company—Taiwan's Foxconn—makes a staggering 40 percent of the world's consumer electronic devices.
Starting now, Microsoft will be getting paid a toll on a large number of those devices. The company's long patent-licensing campaign has landed its biggest client yet in licensing Foxconn, formally named Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Foxconn has agreed to take a license for any product it produces that runs Google's Android or Chrome operating systems.
When Apple began selling the iPhone 5 on September 21, it quickly became the fastest-selling iPhone to date, with five million units sold in the first three days. However, sales have started to slow down since then, and they’ve begun falling short of analyst expectations.
It’s not that customers aren’t buying it, or that the iPhone 5 isn’t successful. The reason it’s not meeting expectations is because Apple’s manufacturing partner, Foxconn, simply can’t make it fast enough. Its design is so complicated that it’s the most difficult device Foxconn has ever built.
