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Definition of box-shifter in English: box-shifternoun informal A retail company which aims to maximize sales with little regard for quality or customer care. Example sentencesExamples - As it promised investors a year ago, Apple isn't following the PC box-shifters into a price war.
- The box-shifter label is traditionally attached to companies that add little value themselves.
- In his introduction to eight hours of presentations by Nokia to financial analysts in New York, he sought to dampen predictions that phone makers would become low margin box-shifters in the future.
- Other high-turnover businesses are ‘box-shifters’ and are better suited to trade sale rather than public listing, the funders said.
- It insists it can still differentiate itself on the hardware from the Dells and other box-shifters.
- Over the last decade, Amstrad has evolved from a modest computer box-shifter to a manufacturer of satellite decoders.
- They have seen how Microsoft's Windows monopoly turned PC makers into commoditised box-shifters, and they are determined not to suffer the same fate.
- Not having your own chip doesn't necessary mean becoming a Dell style box-shifter.
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