Sharp accepts $6.2-billion takeover offer from Foxconn

[Kevin Lancaster]

Sharp accepts $6.2-billion takeover offer from Foxconn

Sharp has accepted a $6.2-billion takeover offer from Foxconn, the main assembler of Apple’s iPhone.

 

[The_Librarian]

Sharp, sharp!

 

[The_Librarian]

Expect most of the payout to vanish into nasty pocketses, and layoffs to follow soon...

 

[dj_jyno]

No

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Sharp used to make the best panels at one point. Dunno if that has changed at all

 

[Thor]

What... is the Apple hardware in fact foxconn??? Jeeeez Foxcon is one of the k@kest motherboards I have ever owned.

Thank god I don't over pay the apple

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Foxconn has one of the best assembly infrastructure available.

The deal was put on hold as of last night by the way. Dunno the latest status

 

[Thor]

Foxconn has one of the best assembly infrastructure available.

The deal was put on hold as of last night by the way. Dunno the latest status

Still the k@kest mobo on the market behind Biostar

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Still the k@kest mobo on the market behind Biostar

Am sure they have noted your opinion. And am sure Microsoft , Apple, Sony and Nintendo amongst others have noticed too.

I mean, look at the crappy products they assemble for some loser IT companies

Foxconn is primarily a contract manufacturer and its clients include major Chinese, American, Finnish, Japanese, and Canadian electronics and information technology companies. [,B] Notable products that the company manufactures include the BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nokia and Wii U.[/B]

They are in the top 5 IT companies of the world wrt revenue. And they can't make a decent motherboard!

Let's build an idiot list of companies who regularly deal with them....a kind of wall of shame :

Acer Inc., Amazon.com , Apple Inc. ,BlackBerry Ltd. , Cisco, Dell , Google ,Hewlett-Packard ,Huawei ,Microsoft ,Motorola Mobility ,InFocus ,Nintendo ,Nokia ,Sony ,Toshiba ,Xiaomi ,Vizio

These misinformed fools don't seem to notice the crap motherboards

 

[now05ster]

When I think of Sharp I am reminded of their Sharp Elsimate calculators.

Oh how I hated school.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

When I think of Sharp I am reminded of their Sharp Elsimate calculators.

Oh how I hated school.

I remember when calculators first came to SA - Casio and Sharp were the big guns ...... bit like the Apple and Samsung smart phone thing today

 

[Hamish McPanji]

I remember when calculators first came to SA - Casio and Sharp were the big guns ...... bit like the Apple and Samsung smart phone thing today

Casio Fx-82 I think it was called was the clear winner though in terms of market share for secondary school. I had a programmable sharp, so solving quadratics and the like was easy.