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Rough Guide to Outsourcing In China
zentec writes, "An article in Design News chronicles WiLife's outsourcing project to China (they make consumer surveillance cameras). It's a tale of a language barrier, misplaced EEPROMS, backyard engineering, incorrectly assembled parts, sloppy engineering, and flaring tempers. That, and an initial defect rate of nearly 80%." In the end WiLife seemed happy enough with their outsourced manufacturing. This is a nitty-gritty account of life under globalization.
Which is why open source products are taking over the market and grinding all of their competitors into the dust. Oh how I long for the old days when just about every computer sold came with commercial proprietary operating systems and businesses and government agencies would only use commercial office suites. I sure miss the quality!