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Nokia kicks OEMs to the kerb
Nokia is getting out of third-party manufacturing, a move that will see the Finnish giant spending $5bn less on making handsets, according to specialists iSuppli. Seventeen per cent of Nokia's manufacturing was outsourced to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in 2008, according to Reuters, and that’s the business from which …
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@AJ Stiles
No pedantry required.
I rather think that the author is alluding to OEM's being thown off the gravy train and into the gutter.
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