On 01/13/2012 11:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2012 21:24:04 Rony wrote: >> >> Buying cheap unbranded products out of economic compulsions cannot be >> used as a justification for unbranded products. Hotel food is so >> expensive nowadays that people with smaller pockets prefer the roadside >> stalls even though they are un-hygenic and use unsold unwanted cheap >> veggies as raw material and discarded edible oil for frying. However >> this does not make the roadside stall food good for consumption. > you havent seen the inside of an udipi joint then. > > While in Mumbai and metros, your observations on food would be partly true, > they are almost the opposite in the small towns. > And you cant extrapolate that to branded electronic goods. The same set of > job > work manufacturers make the branded and unbranded stuff, albeit with a little > better QC. > A visit to China is a real eyeopener to the ride that branded guys are taking > the public. >
The manufacturers and staff may be the same but there is a difference in material. I had once seen a Nokia N8 clone with a client's employee, which the dealer had claimed is made from the same parts as N8 but unofficially. On handling the phone I could make out the low quality build and operation. I have an original N8 now and its hardware is different altogether from the clones. There was a wave of Chinese phones in Mumbai some years ago and many tried them out for their cheap rates but it has settled down after people burned their fingers with bad quality and no warranty hardware. When I would speak to the owners, they would acknowledge the low quality and limitations of their phones but they did it only as a cost saving exercise. Now I see many phones with users, that are branded whether Indian or foreign. Indian brands have helped in bringing down costs of phones. Even the Korean brands have made phones with features like 3G, WiFi and Android more accessible to the people. -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
