Obviously Samsung are not to make all their bets on a single OS and OEMs do not feel abused.

You really missed it completely. The true cause of Foxconn increase is less Humans required. Everyone wants people in factories better treated. The most cost effective way to achieve that is no Humans at all in factories. Leave them on the street with no job where they are not long a problem to the company.

This kind of Manufacture is really willing to pay for very little. They will not be willing to pay for OS from Microsoft.

Only staff Foxconn is keeping is their programmers, designers and researchers with a set of maintenance staff. Scary enough Foxconn programming teams are larger than Microsoft mostly tied up due to the complexity of current arm chips. 64 bit arm chips will change this so freeing up a lot of embedded coders.

Some factories are returning to the USA and other places for the same reason No Humans required.

Foxconn staff numbers are larger than that of a small island.

Clarence Moon the big picture really does not look good for Microsoft or Humans.

According to your own cite: “The growth mainly came from shipments of consumer electronics, Foxconn indicated”. If you read the fine print, they came out with a 60″ LED HDTV in conjunction with Sharp.

I doubt that old JT is going to take any advice from you, Mr. Pogson. Those Chinese are rather taken with themselves and are not going to listen to outsiders, particularly anyone not even in the business.