Motorola now shipping 100,000 Moto X phones weekly
Alexei Oreskovic at Reuters (bold added for emphasis):
Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside said in an interview that the Texas facility, operated by contract manufacturer Flextronics, was capable of producing “tens of millions” of phones a year but expansion depended on demand.
The factory’s current output of 100,000 units a week is only the first phase of a larger plan, he said. And the factory’s output did not necessarily mean all the phones have sold to consumers.
It’s great that the Google/Motorola experiment is bringing jobs to Texas, but the devices have to sell to make it sustainable. That remains to be seen.
Nevertheless, I would love it if Apple did this with more than just the Mac Pro, but at the rate Apple sells iPhones and iPads, it’s perhaps not entirely realistic.