Comment by veltas
2 years ago
>At the lower-end price range, Chinese OEMs are cranking out a device much faster than, as one Nokia employee said only partially in jest, “the time that it takes us to polish a PowerPoint presentation.” They are fast, they are cheap, and they are challenging us.
Never forget that no matter how brilliant you think your company is, there are five of those companies in China, four of which are brand new and working in a playground of mass production at scales you can't comprehend. If the world ever shifts power and relevance to China the whole West will collectively have a burning platform situation. China's not just "cheap", and when people start trusting them for the occasional higher-quality product, and there's a market for it, they'll come for all of us.
Make no mistake, China's industrial prowess will be the major game-changing force in the 2020's.
Nokia was slow. That's part of what got them when Apple launched the iPhone.
Chinese manufacturers are already doing top quality products. Huawei phone are/we're on par with the iPhone and were selling like hot cakes until the company was stopped "by any means necessary".