Walking Down the High Street. Where It’s All Hai-Tech

June 29, 2009

Graham Rankin writes: Walk down the High Street and the choice of products seems overwhelming. Should you buy a Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, or a Motorola phone? An iPhone or a Palm Pre? Or what about an X-Box 360, a Wii, a Playstation, a PSP, a DSlite? Or a Sony Vaio laptop? Well, you might think it is a freedom of choice, except that all this stuff is made… by one company, Taiwanese giant Hon Hai, mostly in its factories in Shenzhen, China (although it has factories all over the world, including sites on the US/Mexico border).Now, let us walk down that street again. Imagine removing all the confusing branding and putting a huge Hon Hai logo on the front of every Apple store. We go into mobile phone shops and re-label every phone of the above makes with a Hon Hai sticker. And everything I have...

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Category: Consumer Watch
Tags: Hon Hai, iPhone, Made in China, Motorola, Nokia