On Friday 13 August 2010 18:34:39 Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
How long have people here managed to use cheap Chinese devices without any deterioration in the quality of service that they provide ?
Pick up any electronic gadget of any make / brand, 90% chances are that, it will be assembled / made in China.
Imo it is more than 98~99%. Including new critical stuff in continuous process industries. Even the few that are boxed in India have all the subassemblies, most of the pcb and associated components, including cpus and memory - the most technology and capital intensive parts of electronics - are made in china.
So it all depends on you, how much extra you want to pay for warranty / brand etc...
Very true.
So when you buy branded stuff, you are buying a label worth Rs.2/- and paying for their ad and brand spend eg. apple who have proly the worst service infrastructure here. Or the label + the service from the service infrastructure eg ACER whose os free stuff offers best value for money, or Lenovo with service in every corner of the country. BTW apple makes it's stuff in china.
If you read the fine print in IBM's ads for servers, they are using refurbished parts. Talk of commoditization of the high tech industry
BTW Intel is shifting it's fabs to Vietnam after which it should shift to Afghanistan and Iraq.
So what we pay for in buying brands is a combo of vapourware, peace of mind and a little tech thrown in.
Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1, IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, INDIA.
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