Taipei: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd aims to extend its business to provide devices and applications that build on Mozilla's Firefox operating system in a bid to diversify away from the company's core contract manufacturing business that yields low margins.
The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer said on Monday it will launch a series of products running Firefox, including smartphones, tablets, TVs, electronic whiteboards and outdoor displays. The company said there are currently more than five devices in development.
"The (major) operating systems in the market now are not doing good enough...the Mozilla solution will complement what other operating systems lack, such as Android in native mode. There is currently no solution based on HTML5 and open Web technologies," said Young Liu, general manager of the Foxconn Innovation Digital System Business Group at a press conference.
Hon Hai, better known by its trading name Foxconn and a major supplier to Apple Inc, showed no devices at the conference....
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