Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), will open two new research and development centers in China and Indonesia, as part of an effort to strengthen its collaboration with Foxconn in the next period. More specifically, Apple wants to approach its Taiwanese partner that assembles its iPhone terminals, with the idea of convincing him to build factories in new areas around the globe.
The first research and development center will be opened in Indonesia in 2017, and the second in Shenzen, China, probably also during the next year. Those from Foxconn have already opened a research and development center in Indonesia, and Apple is joining them, the Americans also doing this to allow them to sell iPhone terminals in the country without a high import tax.
Thanks to the new research and development center in Shenzen, the Apple company will work much better with those from Foxconn, its engineers will interact much more easily with those of the manufacturer. Anyway, Apple has a lot of employees who live in China and collaborate with Foxconn, but now it will have the opportunity to monitor more closely the activities of its partners.
Moreover, Apple is interested in strengthening its relations with Foxconn in view of the possibility of opening new factories in other areas of the planet. More precisely, Apple would like Foxconn to open factories in India and, probably, the USA, and strengthening the collaboration could ease the work of persuasion in order to initiate investments of tens of billions of dollars.
"Apple has been aggressively looking to expand into the Southeast Asia market recently and has reportedly partnered with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) for related plans, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. Apple is expected to begin constructing two new R&D centers in Asia in 2017 located in Indonesia and Shenzhen, China."
