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Google now shipping 100,000 Moto X per week from Texas factory

article published on 11 September, 2013

Motorola Mobility has confirmed today that the company is shopping 100,000 Moto X per week from its Texas manufacturing facility. The Moto X is the first made-in-the-US smartphone, and teardowns have found that building here in the States only adds $9 or so to costs. Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside has said the facility is capable of producing tens of millions of phones per year, but ... [ read the full article ]

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Might only add $9/phone, but I bet the whiny people who work there get paid a whole lot more than people working in Chinese factories.

So, while the cost per device may not be that much more from a purely hardware perspective, the overall cost is undoubtedly much more.
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