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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 3:47 pm
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Originally Posted by aster
What kind of stock-piles would they have built up by the time the first shipments are made? Surely they must have been manufacturing them at full speed for the last 2-3 months in the run-up to the launch...
Given that Foxconn has more than 1 million employees- I think the manufacturing times would be pretty impressive. My understanding is that a considerable amount of transpacific capacity for containers has been absorbed- so the bottleneck is probably there as opposed to the factory.
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