Motorola Closing Only U.S. Smartphone Factory

[eridani]

http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2014/05/motorola-closing-only-us-smartphone-factory?location=top

Google's Motorola Mobility handset unit has announced it will close its Texas factory by the end of this year, barely a year after it opened as the first smartphone factory in the U.S.

Sales of its flagship phone, the Moto X, have been weak and the costs of running the plant are too high to keep operations going, Motorola Mobility spokesman Will Moss said. Singapore-based international contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics Ltd. operates the plant.

Even though the concept of the smartphone was pioneered in the U.S. and many phones have been designed here, the vast majority of phones are assembled in Asia.

[corkhead]

1. apparently Texans don't have the small fingers and dexterity that 14 year old chinese girls do

[tomm2thumbs]

2. I'm sure this will be good news for Gov Rick Perry's GOP Presidential run prospects... he knows biz

Oh wait... I guess this would actually undermine his prospects.... poor dude

Oh, but the rush he got sitting in his high chair at the grand opening... that was all worth it