I'm in Washington, DC.
Preparing testimony for the US International Trade Commission's study on used electronics exports.
I'm going to describe a remote, exotic, primitive place.
The "non-OECD". 83% of the population of the earth lives there.
All the hard drives and all the smart phones are made there, and (a little more shocking to some readers) more than 50% of the patents, design and engineering of those devices also originated there. Hold onto your chairs - "Polaroid" LCD televisions (a significant share of the market) are not being made in Waltham, Massachusetts.
In fact, they are made in this same, exotic, faraway land of "non-OECD". In the same kind of factory that makes - Sony! Oh, you thought Sony was made in Japan? That's SO 1995.
Preparing testimony for the US International Trade Commission's study on used electronics exports.
I'm going to describe a remote, exotic, primitive place.
The "non-OECD". 83% of the population of the earth lives there.
All the hard drives and all the smart phones are made there, and (a little more shocking to some readers) more than 50% of the patents, design and engineering of those devices also originated there. Hold onto your chairs - "Polaroid" LCD televisions (a significant share of the market) are not being made in Waltham, Massachusetts.
In fact, they are made in this same, exotic, faraway land of "non-OECD". In the same kind of factory that makes - Sony! Oh, you thought Sony was made in Japan? That's SO 1995.
