Motorola Outsources 90% of Its Phones, Xiaomi 78%, Vivo 52%, While Apple Outsources None
https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/11/08/smartphone-design-outsourcing-report-motorola-90-percent/
https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/11/08/smartphone-design-outsourcing-report-motorola-90-percent/
7 Comments
daikiki@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y
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.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
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.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I forgot about that brief interlude. I remember it being sad when Google gutted them and sold the brand.
ryan213@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
OK?
solrize@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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).