Apple TV In Production At Foxxcon

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Apple's long-rumoured 'smart TV' has entered production at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn on a trial basis according to a new report. Sources have alleged to China Business News that Foxconn's Shenzhen factory has received an order for Apple's mooted TV device.

Apple's long-awaited television set may finally be in the works.

Foxconn, Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner, is in the very early stages of producing the new TV, according to a report from China Business News via WantChinaTimes.

The publication reports hearing from its sources that Foxconn has received orders for an Apple TV and is currently in the "trial production stage."

Gene Munster, an analyst at investment bank Piper Jaffray, predicted recently that Apple will publicize its smart TV products in December and that the products will hit the market early next year. They will be sold at sizes ranging from 42" to 55" and will cost US$1,500-US$2,000.

China Business News did not provide any further details about the television or when it might be released.

Earlier this month, Foxconn denied that it was building a television for Apple after one local publication had reported that its CEO had confirmed the project. However, the news that Foxconn may finally be working on the television matches up with the timeline laid out by Munster, who recently predicted that the company would announce the television this December and begin shipping it in early 2013.

In a recent interview with the Telegraph, Apple's head of design, Jonathan Ive, when asked about which product he would like to be remembered about, replied, “It’s a really tough one. A lot does seem to come back to the fact that what we’re working on now feels like the most important and the best work we’ve done, and so it would be what we’re working on right now, which of course I can’t tell you about.” — of course one could anticipate he is referring to the Apple TV.



SOURCE  Business Insider

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