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...Like scores of other Taiwan companies, HTC and Asustek have been laboring in obscurity for years as contract manufacturers, building and in some cases designing PCs, music players, cell phones, LCDs and video games on behalf of well-known brands such as Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Apple. Taiwan's heavy concentration of contract manufacturers makes the country a high-tech powerhouse - but the business model has its limits. Because they work for others, contract manufacturers have little pricing power and don't reap the higher profit margins commanded by companies like Sony and Samsung. "There are very slim margins...
...main European and Asian companies as open buyers in this trade: Thailand Smelting and Refining Corp. (owned by British Amalgamated Metal Corp.), British Afrimex, Belgian Trademet and Traxys. And it questions the role of others further down the manufacturing chain, including prominent electronics companies Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Dell and Motorola. Even though the companies may be acting legally, Global Witness criticizes their lack of due diligence and transparency standards at every level of their supply chain...
When he formulated the idea for the DynaTAC, Motorola's prototype for the first cellular phone, John F. Mitchell, who died on June 11 at 81, boasted that his creation would be useful to a "widely diverse group of people--businessmen, journalists, doctors, housewives, virtually anyone." But back in 1973, Mitchell--then chief engineer of the company's mobile- and portable-products division and later the company's president and chief operating officer--probably had no idea that by the time he retired, in 1998, wireless products would account for two-thirds of Motorola's $30 billion in annual sales...
Bulky design aside, the brick was a defining achievement for Mitchell, a rough-and-tumble manager whose interest in technology was kindled by the Erector set he had received as a child. The seminal phone wasn't a hit, but it placed Motorola at the forefront of the cell-phone revolution...
...losers in the race to offer thousands of useful smart-phone applications may be Motorola (MOT) and Samsung which still do not have major initiatives to bring in software developers and the customers that often come as a by-product when attractive products are available for handsets...