How much longer will contract manufacturers like Foxconn remain in the shadow of the West's tech giants?

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Are the likes of Apple, Dell and HP in danger of suffering the same fate as bicycle maker Schwinn, whose business was irreparably damaged when its contract manufacturer in Taiwan decided to beat the US firm at its own game?

When Steve Jobs unveiled the first Apple Macintosh in 1983, he boasted that it was a computer "made in America", produced at an Apple-owned factory in Fremont, California. Fifteen years later, w...

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