Motorola Outsources 90% of Its Phones, Xiaomi 78%, Vivo 52%, While Apple Outsources None
Motorola Outsources 90% of Its Phones, Xiaomi 78%, Vivo 52%, While Apple Outsources None
In case you were wondering, they're saying that Apple doesn't outsource its design. It outsources its fabrication like nobody's business. I always kinda thought that's what outsourcing meant, but apparently there are companies that neither design nor fabricate their products. I guess their core competency is just taking the money.
I’d be curious how many phone companies don’t outsource fabrication, even just for final assembly. Maybe Samsung doesn’t? LG, Huawei? And even then I suspect they’d try to retain some capacity with contract assemblers for redundancy in case of a disaster or other issue at their own facility or in case they get an unexpectedly high runner and need extra capacity to meet demand.
Motorola doesn't make cell phones at all. Lenovo makes cell phones under the Moto brand they purchased when Motorola left that part of the industry.
Yup, Motorola sold the mobility division to Google who rustled through their pockets for spare patents before selling the remainder of the brand to Lenovo.
I forgot about that brief interlude. I remember it being sad when Google gutted them and sold the brand.
They don't say what models but it probably doesn't matter. It's fine with me if my phone is basically generic. (Moto G Stylus 5g 2023).
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