G+_George Kozi Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Originally shared by George Kozi Passing thought: If you want to make a mobile phone these days, you go for components and assembly to China... they all have to do that, don't they? Apple and Android alike. But there is notable exception: Microsoft. By buying Nokia, Microsoft bought themselves factories. Yep, nokia has its own factories. So from now on, Microsoft has its own manufacturing base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Feiris Wheel (Pat) Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 They didn't get all the manufacturing, not sure how much of it they did get but here is a bit of what they didn't. http://m.wpcentral.com/comment/879017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Damian Mongru Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 The India factory seems to be quite important for phone manufacturing. Although they say that MS are acquiring 18,300 people 'directly involved in manufacturing, assembly and packaging of products worldwide', and 'in more than 130 sites across 50 countries worldwide' which is just crazy. I understand that this is a wide variety of disciplines, but it must include a few factories. Also, did they mention on Windows Weekly that Nokia also mines it's own raw materials. They did EVERYTHING required in producing a phone and it just made me more amazed by Nokia as a company. I think if treated correctly this could be a phenomenal deal for MS, but I feel it is a shame to see this happen to Nokia. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/sep13/09-02announcementpr.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/apr14/04-25nokiapr.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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