{"id":750608,"date":"2013-05-09T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=498979"},"modified":"2013-05-09T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:59:58","slug":"key-apple-partner-boosts-workforce-by-40-to-prep-for-low-cost-iphone-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750608","title":{"rendered":"Key Apple partner boosts workforce by 40% to prep for low-cost iPhone production"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/low-cost-iphone-production\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/iphone-face-down-black.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Low Cost iPhone Production\" title=\"Low Cost iPhone Production\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Pegatron <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/ipad-mini-manufacturer-demand-falling\/\">may or may not be seeing falling demand for the iPad mini<\/a> but it's clear that the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0device manufacturer won't be slacking off for\u00a0the next several months. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/05\/09\/us-pegatron-apple-idUSBRE94804D20130509\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reports<\/a> that Pegatron is planning to boost its workforce in China by 40% in the second half of 2013, right when <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/apple-iphone-5s-lower-cost-iphone\/\">Apple is expected to start manufacturing its long-rumored low-cost iPhone<\/a>. While there's no definitive information linking Pegatron to the low-cost <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a>, <em>Reuters<\/em> says that the company expects its \"revenue from communication products\" to \"contribute up to 40% to total in the six months from June, compared to 24% in the three months in the beginning of the year.\" Or put another way, Pegatron expects to get a major revenue boost from producing \"communications products\" that will likely include some variant of Apple's iPhone.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Y2dRiP6u-IA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pegatron may or may not be seeing falling demand for the iPad mini but it&#8217;s clear that the Apple\u00a0device manufacturer won&#8217;t be slacking off for\u00a0the next several months. Reuters reports that Pegatron is planning to boost its workforce in China by 40% in the second half of 2013, right when Apple is expected to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39gA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}