Foxconn hires 3,000 software engineers for Firefox OS

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; Foxconn will invest a lot of human and material resources on the Firefox OS Mobile platform and plan to recruit 3,000 software engineers to do the work accordingly.     In addition, Foxconn's move seems to have a bigger purpose: It also pre-installed software and services for the hardware of the company's foundry. Industry insiders believe that one of the intentions of Foxconn in recruiting the software engineers is that the company has been helping to make the Firefox OS Drive and optimize its operations as part of its production of Mozilla's operating system.     But Foxconn's move has another big purpose. As of now, Foxconn status is still a product for the industry. In the past few years, people talk about Foxconn, the first impression is that the company for Apple equipment on behalf of industry and commerce. Even if the profitability of Foxconn's foundry activities is relatively low, it should be said to be a good business. However, Foxconn's partnership with Apple has become strained, and Foxconn has been forced to look for new business growth. And software is undoubtedly the effective way to achieve profit growth.
Perhaps the new trend is only beginning when Firefox OS devices are able to make a winning start at Foxconn.     Among the 3,000 software engineers planned to recruit, Foxconn asked them to be HTML5 and cloud computing experts. For companies such as Foxconn, it is natural for the company to have a more systematic understanding of the HTML-centric mobile operating system in the process of producing equipment for its partners.     In addition, through the recruitment of these software engineers, Foxconn can also provide external white (white label) applications and cloud services. If Foxconn is working on hardware products for other manufacturers in the future, why not just take care of the software as well? HTML5 apps will work well on any equipment that Foxconn produces (such as Firefox OS handsets, Chromebook laptops, Windows laptops, and Android tablets, etc.). Industry insiders expect that by 2015, cloud computing and its services will bring in more than $1 trillion trillion in market size, so why not join this trend for manufacturers such as Foxconn?