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What's the beef with Monster Cable?
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Or Bose. Both Monster Cable and Bose are monuments to intentionally poor engineering, but outstanding marketing leading to overwhelming market share.
Basically, it's not always the 'best', or even adequate, product/company that makes the most money. |
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Well duh, but Apple is still under his reality distortion field because all of these lawsuits were filed when he was alive and they were what he wanted. He absolutely with his entire being hated Android and stated that he would spend all 40 billion dollars of Apples money to destroy it.
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Chinese products have a long history of a being a race to the low end of the price range. Take a walk through Chinese malls, except for the expensive imported items all the local stuff is just "me-too". There is no innovation (even hardly any new design for garments or shoes), and why should anyone go through the trouble and expense of developing something when, as soon as the goods hit the store, the first copy products appear? Companies like Adidas have seen copies of their designs hit the stores before they themselves did (local companies paid Adidas employees to smuggle out the designs during development). No copyright and no patent protection sort of does make sense for dirt poor countries. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan all started out this way. But they reach the point --- like China does now, when they need to upgrade, when they need to promote innovation, because they cannot just compete on price anymore as costs are too high. But for even half developed countries without these protections there is only a race to produce at the lowest price, at the expense of jobs in developed countries, of course. When making dirt cheap products, who can afford to pay good wages? How can you create any value beyond production cost without them? |
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Japan started exactly like China does now. Creating poor imitations of "good" western products. But Japan has outgrown this and now makes some excellent innovative products. I don't know how or when this shift started, so I've no idea how to apply this to China... The idea is simple. First, spend money on factories and "steal" good designs. Once the factories are paid for and you've a steady source of income, you can start spending money on designs and innovation. R&D always takes a lot of money... |
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OH NO !!
I've just realised - Apple are gonna be after me soon - my tea-tray is breaking their patent..... ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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I am sure they will come up with a few more this century.... |
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edit: Sorry hidari, I posted before reading to the end. You beat me to it obviously. Last edited by wodin; 12-07-2011 at 12:41 PM. Reason: credit to hidari |
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