They didn't invent the smartphone. They invented a good and usable one.
There's a reason why v0.1 of Android looked like the blackberry, and just about every single smartphone on the market looks like the iPhone now rather than the blackberry.
You seem a little confused. There were prototypes...but there was not one called v0.1 because you made that up to suit your version of history. Now there was a prototype phone called the 'Sooner' which does have a keyboard and does look blackberryesque, but you fail to mention the "Dream" protoype [companies work on several products] which went on to become the HTC Dream...the first android phone. BTW this was done before the iPhone was released. Although many companies were working on Capacitative screens, as input, Just look at the documents rejected by the biased Judge in that little trial that cost Samsung over a Billion Dollars.
Nobody but Samsung really makes money out of Android.
Show me the figures. Google make a load of money from Android [and indirectly even more]. The only company I see struggling is HTC [ignoring the fact they are also a Windows Phone company], and ironically Motorola. Sony is doing badly everywhere else but is profitable with phones. In fact ZTE and Huawei, are doing really well too.
Lets be honest Android is booming and phone companies making the right moves are doing well, unlike Nokia who well should have had an Android product.
As a EU citizen I think the EU should stop bothering MS over this browser selectionscreen, otherwise they should also go after Apple for not providing the same option for iOS and MacOSX. MS has already payed enough, and letting 'dumb' users decide which browser to use is one of the most moronic things to do as they have no clue as to which browser is better (they all have their positives and negatives), they propably will select the one that has the nicest icon or name... Stop wasting EU tax money on such stupid things...
Ignoring the EU citizen bit. I personally believe. The EU should have been more vigilant in preventing the Monopoly happening in the first place. The sanction should not be money, but replacing IE as an option from the slection screen:).
I hate eliteist comments like yours attacking moronic(sic) users. The selection screen is a useful way of quickly informing users about the choices available to them.
Microsoft should obviously be penalised for it failing to comply with the 2009 ruling, but the EU should also make sure that Microsoft is paying the right Tax in the EU, and tax loopholes closed if their are any. I am tired of Mega corporations not paying tax.
I don't get why all the OS rage from windows/linux desktop users? it's almost like something might really be amiss;)
I'm really not full of rage when I tell you a company that is moving its overpriced barely upgradable closed computers to overpriced closed electronics. With software tied to hardware is a *NIX guys dream [I think I felt the marketing wave make me feel ill at that point].
Personally I'm a little tired of large posts containing nothing but adversing slogans;) The bottom line is though Apple is a vile company that needs to boycotted.:(
You really claim that these days you can buy stuff that doesn't has one or mulitple components not manufactered in China ?
Absolutely not!! Do I buy from the companies that are producing hardware in companies where worker rights are protected like America like Intel; Samsung and companies trying to move manufacturing to countries protected by workers rights like Google with the Nexus Q. Do I Boycott companies like Apple that charge a premium and laugh at the prospect of producing hardware in places where workers rights are protected...to the president no less. Its not complicated to be an ethical consumer...give money to companies that act ethically don't give money to those that don't.....have a biscuit!!!!
Major customers of Foxconn currently include:
You don't care about these workers, you are only bothered with your Apple hate so that you even ignore the facts. Only on slashdot this can be modded up. Sickening !
What is sickening!! you have posted a list of companies that use these workers without bothering with a good list like Samsung have manufacturing plants in America, and Goggle famously left China for ethical reasons and introduced a new Nexus product made in America. I think its time you stopped queuing for the iPhone 5 and wend and bought a Samsung Galaxy III.
I'm pretty confident Microsoft is getting both into advertising and Media, and Google already into Office/OS products.
Google will NEVER sell you that just stupid. If it did so it would be out of business pretty sharpish, they sell companies advertisements to you. which they can do over and over again...they can only sell you ONCE...and that is poor business. Its why they are making Billions.
I think current PS3 owners will be made up with the continuing support from Sony. Personally as someone who expected to own a PS3 by now, having lusted after it at launch, but scoffed at its ludicrous price [I bought a wii]. My problem was never the size...I have a 40" TV, and the last reversion was as small as I could have ever wanted it.
But today my attention is focused elsewhere because the PS3 failed to live up to its promise * As a multimedia centre having never contained an inbuilt decent Dual TV tuner [I have an ageing Pentium 4 under my TV] * As a computer crippling the Linux on launch, and dropping it once they failed to get the tax break they deserved, and haven't returned it post Surface. * Its not smart. In a world that knows smart. Google knows it. Apple knows; I think even Sony knows it.
I bought an Ouya on kickstarter., a Nexus 7, I traded in my Nintendo DS for an Xperia Play[Its wonderful and from Sony], and am occupying myself with the revival of Indie Gaming on Linux no Less[Humble Bundle 6!!!! is out this week].
Sony could have had my money and I was/am desperate to give it them. It could have my money today, but as a single purpose device, I'll take my gaming...and money elsewhere.
I'm sure the reports of suicide nets and riots are all lies.
>Again, if you remember, when the story of suicides came to slashdot, people here quickly did the sensible thing and compared the suicide rate per 100,000 people: Foxconn vs China as a whole. Result, Foxconn employees commit suicide significantly less often than the average Chinese person.Some people just can't cope with large numbers and don't get the logic that any group of hundreds of thousands of people will have multiple suicides in the group.>Riots? You mean the 7 new employees that were out for a meal and had a fight with the owner of a restaurant. And a bunch of their colleagues joined in. Nothing to do with the factory or working practices. Just a brawl in a company town. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18363929Now, even if these things you mention weren't lies and distortions, you'd then have to consider that Foxconn don't just manufacture for Apple, but many other brands. You undoubtably own products made by Foxconn in China.
Your liking for one smartphone over another causes you to ape and repeat the exposed liar Mike Daisey. How pathetic is that. Meditate on it for a while. Is this really the kind of as person you want to be?
I must be missing something here, or maybe you just can't read the chart you linked. The chart shows the iPad gaining market share at the expense of Android since the launch of the Kindle Fire. The color coding of the chart is obnoxious, as the first chart in the article has the iPhone in red and Android in blue, while the tablet one has the colors reversed.
What's the difference between Android activations and sales? Isn't a device only activated when it's sold? Those activation numbers are still higher than the shipped/sold numbers, so it still looks impossible. (Unless a single device can be activated twice or more, and those extra activations count in the total--in which case, the number is meaningless.)
FYI on Apple Sold to quote the SEC 10K filing from Apple: "Part II. Item 7. Page 26 Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates > Revenue recognition
Net sales consist primarily of revenue from the sale of hardware, software, digital content and applications, peripherals, and service and support contracts. The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collection is probable. Product is considered delivered to the customer once it has been shipped and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of the Company’s product sales, these criteria are met at the time the product is shipped. For online sales to individuals, for some sales to education customers in the U.S., and for certain other sales, the Company defers recognition of revenue until the customer receives the product because the Company retains a portion of the risk of loss on these sales during transit. "
So please stop saying that. As for Samsung What are you on about. Android is by Google the original announcement https://plus.google.com/u/0/110023707389740934545/posts/R5YdRRyeTHM its by Hugo Barra.to quote "Today is a big day for Android... 500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day." September 12th It activated means just that official Android devices [Not Amazons] activated at Google...that means in customers hands switched on:)
Ignoring that you cannot spell the word buy correctly. You claimed that 1.3 million android phone are bought everyday. You were proven wrong.
LOL this is the thing when you correct someone you don't get things wrong like the plural of "Phone". As for being proved wrong. I am happy to be proved wrong. I clarified my statement, but it doesn't discount my original point, or invalidate my statement. See this is the thing. 1.3 million Android devices activated daily...Thats better than Apples *Shipped* figures [Apple say Sales when they mean shipped], but however you apportion that Apples Phone figures look weak, if your implying a greater proportion to tablets, it makes Apples Phones and Tablets Phones look weak.:).
Personally I'm happy with Android Activating 90 Million Phones vs Apples 37 Million and 27 Million Androids Million Tables vs Apples [in a launch quarter no less] 12 million. Personally I think that Android tablets are selling well especially this quarter...but that well!?
It is actual quite sensible to look at web traffic. Of the non-iPad tablets, a huge number are mostly used as eBook readers (Nook and Kindle). And while they reduce the iPad's "tablet market share", they are not really competing with the iPad. The 10% web traffic that wasn't on iPads however comes from real competitors.
I am in kind of Awe at this response. I personally think 5" Android phones would be included in the figures, as they are being used as tablets. Personally I've been shocked at how much more useful 7" widescreen tablets that is useful for reading Books; Watching Video; and Playing games than Apples outdated CRT dimensions, only really useful for a little light browsing.
iPad has 90% of tablet web traffic. Why is that? You might be able to buy cheaper Android tablets, but chances are they'll gather dust on the shelf.
Your quoting web traffic as a metric for sales!? Do you really think that is sensible...as opposed to quoting sales! as sales. The fact that you are trying to display the illusion that Shops are buying and Android tablets to occupy expensive shelf, and stock space, shows an astonishing lack of insight into how basic retail works.
By Chinese standards, jobs at Foxconn are good, well paid jobs. That's why there are queues of people outside the factories looking to get jobs there. Don't forget that Mike Daisey's stories about Foxconn turned out to be a tissue of lies.
I'm sure the reports of suicide nets and riots are all lies. I'm sure when the simpering Apple executive describing why American will will ensure a phone is never made again be made in America to the president, described waking them the workforce up in the night to get them to make last minute changes to the iphone...and giving them a biscuit.
Personally I find it disgusting you think that its acceptable that workers are treated that way anywhere.
No I mean the year on year drop worldwide from 18.8% to 16.9% and yes my link is to IDC figures. Perhaps you should be a less US centric...the internet has been around for sometime. FYI Androids Market share grew from 46.9 % to 68.1% in the same period.
"Allwinner"? That sounds like a real quality hardware company, there. Good luck with that.
Then your buying a brand, but lets be fair ZTE and Huawei Offer excellent low to mid range products, and they are very well known. I suspect your Carrier builds everything on these companies hardware.
Ever since Apple went bankrupt after it tried to sell that disastrous mp3 "pod" player thing in the early 2000s (not as much space as my Nomad but more expensive? no thanks!),
I remember my history being different, Apple had an MP3 player at EVERY price point...and still do. The iPod was more expensive than the competition, but unlike the iPhone/iPad not by a lot, but they had branding and were universal, a monopoly in every sense.
You know, I just can't stand hyperbole! I will have to kill myself over this. Why, every single hardware article is about how the PC is DEAD! How hardware is dying! And on and on a million times a day! Can't the media stop it?! No they can't. This will go on FOREVER and EVER!
Because the massive growth in mobile dedicated computing [smartphones, Tablets] , is undeniable. Putting your head in the sand, and pretending its will not change the fact.
because somewhere, some poor bastard always pays the difference in terms of lowered wages, slavelike labour, oh and of course there are dollars to save by screwing up the environment by improper mining and waste disposal.
The part quality hasn't played significant role in tablet manufacturing. The part count itself is relatively low and what consumers really care is build quality. You really cannot expect $45 device to survive if you knock it to the floor from sofa but the build quality on more expensive devices give the device a fighting chance.
You have to remember that the iPhone is worth in parts only a sixth of its price, a little over twice the price of the device in question, and that's for an allegedly cutting edge product [sic]. Have a look at those cheaper Android phones, You will be shocked at how impressive they are.
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But.. but.. but... I thought by boycotting Apple I was helping the workers!!
Clearly you were [if its true]. That is kind of the point of the article.
They didn't invent the smartphone. They invented a good and usable one.
There's a reason why v0.1 of Android looked like the blackberry, and just about every single smartphone on the market looks like the iPhone now rather than the blackberry.
You seem a little confused. There were prototypes...but there was not one called v0.1 because you made that up to suit your version of history. Now there was a prototype phone called the 'Sooner' which does have a keyboard and does look blackberryesque, but you fail to mention the "Dream" protoype [companies work on several products] which went on to become the HTC Dream...the first android phone. BTW this was done before the iPhone was released. Although many companies were working on Capacitative screens, as input, Just look at the documents rejected by the biased Judge in that little trial that cost Samsung over a Billion Dollars.
Nobody but Samsung really makes money out of Android.
Show me the figures. Google make a load of money from Android [and indirectly even more]. The only company I see struggling is HTC [ignoring the fact they are also a Windows Phone company], and ironically Motorola. Sony is doing badly everywhere else but is profitable with phones. In fact ZTE and Huawei, are doing really well too.
Lets be honest Android is booming and phone companies making the right moves are doing well, unlike Nokia who well should have had an Android product.
As a EU citizen I think the EU should stop bothering MS over this browser selectionscreen, otherwise they should also go after Apple for not providing the same option for iOS and MacOSX. MS has already payed enough, and letting 'dumb' users decide which browser to use is one of the most moronic things to do as they have no clue as to which browser is better (they all have their positives and negatives), they propably will select the one that has the nicest icon or name... Stop wasting EU tax money on such stupid things...
Ignoring the EU citizen bit. I personally believe. The EU should have been more vigilant in preventing the Monopoly happening in the first place. The sanction should not be money, but replacing IE as an option from the slection screen :).
I hate eliteist comments like yours attacking moronic(sic) users. The selection screen is a useful way of quickly informing users about the choices available to them.
Microsoft should obviously be penalised for it failing to comply with the 2009 ruling, but the EU should also make sure that Microsoft is paying the right Tax in the EU, and tax loopholes closed if their are any. I am tired of Mega corporations not paying tax.
They need the money to bailout Spain...
You would think America would get Apple;Google and Microsoft to pay tax hitting $16 trillion
I don't get why all the OS rage from windows/linux desktop users? it's almost like something might really be amiss ;)
I'm really not full of rage when I tell you a company that is moving its overpriced barely upgradable closed computers to overpriced closed electronics. With software tied to hardware is a *NIX guys dream [I think I felt the marketing wave make me feel ill at that point].
Personally I'm a little tired of large posts containing nothing but adversing slogans ;) The bottom line is though Apple is a vile company that needs to boycotted. :(
You really claim that these days you can buy stuff that doesn't has one or mulitple components not manufactered in China ?
Absolutely not!! Do I buy from the companies that are producing hardware in companies where worker rights are protected like America like Intel; Samsung and companies trying to move manufacturing to countries protected by workers rights like Google with the Nexus Q. Do I Boycott companies like Apple that charge a premium and laugh at the prospect of producing hardware in places where workers rights are protected...to the president no less. Its not complicated to be an ethical consumer...give money to companies that act ethically don't give money to those that don't. ....have a biscuit!!!!
Major customers of Foxconn currently include:
You don't care about these workers, you are only bothered with your Apple hate so that you even ignore the facts. Only on slashdot this can be modded up. Sickening !
What is sickening!! you have posted a list of companies that use these workers without bothering with a good list like Samsung have manufacturing plants in America, and Goggle famously left China for ethical reasons and introduced a new Nexus product made in America. I think its time you stopped queuing for the iPhone 5 and wend and bought a Samsung Galaxy III.
Microsoft sells Software, Google sells You.
I'm pretty confident Microsoft is getting both into advertising and Media, and Google already into Office/OS products.
Google will NEVER sell you that just stupid. If it did so it would be out of business pretty sharpish, they sell companies advertisements to you. which they can do over and over again...they can only sell you ONCE...and that is poor business. Its why they are making Billions.
I think current PS3 owners will be made up with the continuing support from Sony. Personally as someone who expected to own a PS3 by now, having lusted after it at launch, but scoffed at its ludicrous price [I bought a wii]. My problem was never the size...I have a 40" TV, and the last reversion was as small as I could have ever wanted it.
But today my attention is focused elsewhere because the PS3 failed to live up to its promise
* As a multimedia centre having never contained an inbuilt decent Dual TV tuner [I have an ageing Pentium 4 under my TV]
* As a computer crippling the Linux on launch, and dropping it once they failed to get the tax break they deserved, and haven't returned it post Surface.
* Its not smart. In a world that knows smart. Google knows it. Apple knows; I think even Sony knows it.
I bought an Ouya on kickstarter., a Nexus 7, I traded in my Nintendo DS for an Xperia Play[Its wonderful and from Sony], and am occupying myself with the revival of Indie Gaming on Linux no Less[Humble Bundle 6!!!! is out this week].
Sony could have had my money and I was/am desperate to give it them. It could have my money today, but as a single purpose device, I'll take my gaming...and money elsewhere.
I'm sure the reports of suicide nets and riots are all lies.
>Again, if you remember, when the story of suicides came to slashdot, people here quickly did the sensible thing and compared the suicide rate per 100,000 people: Foxconn vs China as a whole. Result, Foxconn employees commit suicide significantly less often than the average Chinese person.Some people just can't cope with large numbers and don't get the logic that any group of hundreds of thousands of people will have multiple suicides in the group.>Riots? You mean the 7 new employees that were out for a meal and had a fight with the owner of a restaurant. And a bunch of their colleagues joined in. Nothing to do with the factory or working practices. Just a brawl in a company town.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18363929Now, even if these things you mention weren't lies and distortions, you'd then have to consider that Foxconn don't just manufacture for Apple, but many other brands. You undoubtably own products made by Foxconn in China.
Your liking for one smartphone over another causes you to ape and repeat the exposed liar Mike Daisey. How pathetic is that. Meditate on it for a while. Is this really the kind of as person you want to be?
The only Liar here is you.
Anti-Suicide Nets - http://www.dailytech.com/Foxconn+Installs+AntiSuicide+Nets+at+Its+Facilities/article18877.htm
Riot - http://www.dailytech.com/Foxconn+Installs+AntiSuicide+Nets+at+Its+Facilities/article18877.htm
Please don't reply to my posts your willingness to distort the truth for your shiny Apple I find distasteful.
I must be missing something here, or maybe you just can't read the chart you linked. The chart shows the iPad gaining market share at the expense of Android since the launch of the Kindle Fire. The color coding of the chart is obnoxious, as the first chart in the article has the iPhone in red and Android in blue, while the tablet one has the colors reversed.
Education...Seriously its not that difficult to follow. http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/methods/quantlit/trends.html This should get you started. If you need more detailed help do not hesitate to ask. ;)
Actually, Apple's the one that seems to consistently give out numbers sold, not shipped (when they give out numbers at all)--unlike, say, Samsung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab#Sales
What's the difference between Android activations and sales? Isn't a device only activated when it's sold? Those activation numbers are still higher than the shipped/sold numbers, so it still looks impossible. (Unless a single device can be activated twice or more, and those extra activations count in the total--in which case, the number is meaningless.)
FYI on Apple Sold to quote the SEC 10K filing from Apple:
"Part II. Item 7. Page 26
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates > Revenue recognition
Net sales consist primarily of revenue from the sale of hardware, software, digital content and applications, peripherals, and service and support contracts. The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collection is probable. Product is considered delivered to the customer once it has been shipped and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of the Company’s product sales, these criteria are met at the time the product is shipped. For online sales to individuals, for some sales to education customers in the U.S., and for certain other sales, the Company defers recognition of revenue until the customer receives the product because the Company retains a portion of the risk of loss on these sales during transit. "
So please stop saying that. As for Samsung What are you on about. Android is by Google the original announcement https://plus.google.com/u/0/110023707389740934545/posts/R5YdRRyeTHM its by Hugo Barra.to quote "Today is a big day for Android... 500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day." September 12th It activated means just that official Android devices [Not Amazons] activated at Google...that means in customers hands switched on :)
Ignoring that you cannot spell the word buy correctly. You claimed that 1.3 million android phone are bought everyday. You were proven wrong.
LOL this is the thing when you correct someone you don't get things wrong like the plural of "Phone". As for being proved wrong. I am happy to be proved wrong. I clarified my statement, but it doesn't discount my original point, or invalidate my statement. See this is the thing. 1.3 million Android devices activated daily...Thats better than Apples *Shipped* figures [Apple say Sales when they mean shipped], but however you apportion that Apples Phone figures look weak, if your implying a greater proportion to tablets, it makes Apples Phones and Tablets Phones look weak. :).
Personally I'm happy with Android Activating 90 Million Phones vs Apples 37 Million and 27 Million Androids Million Tables vs Apples [in a launch quarter no less] 12 million. Personally I think that Android tablets are selling well especially this quarter...but that well!?
It is actual quite sensible to look at web traffic. Of the non-iPad tablets, a huge number are mostly used as eBook readers (Nook and Kindle). And while they reduce the iPad's "tablet market share", they are not really competing with the iPad. The 10% web traffic that wasn't on iPads however comes from real competitors.
I am in kind of Awe at this response. I personally think 5" Android phones would be included in the figures, as they are being used as tablets. Personally I've been shocked at how much more useful 7" widescreen tablets that is useful for reading Books; Watching Video; and Playing games than Apples outdated CRT dimensions, only really useful for a little light browsing.
See what I did there. Its also true.
Um, what? iPad marketshare actually went up during the past year.
Have you even looked at your source...Its Apple spin from an Apple slide no less. Bless it. http://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/iPad-vs.-Android-Tablet-Market-Share.png. Apples market share has been dropping over time. Right now post Q2. I'm going to say with Google, and Amazon both making great launches. I'd say Apple is taking a beating in the the Post Nexus 7 world. The picture is from http://betanews.com/2012/07/24/nexus-7-will-lead-android-tablets-to-overtake-ipad/ which shows that Android is eroding Apples market share faster than it did with phones.
iPad has 90% of tablet web traffic. Why is that? You might be able to buy cheaper Android tablets, but chances are they'll gather dust on the shelf.
Your quoting web traffic as a metric for sales!? Do you really think that is sensible...as opposed to quoting sales! as sales. The fact that you are trying to display the illusion that Shops are buying and Android tablets to occupy expensive shelf, and stock space, shows an astonishing lack of insight into how basic retail works.
By Chinese standards, jobs at Foxconn are good, well paid jobs. That's why there are queues of people outside the factories looking to get jobs there. Don't forget that Mike Daisey's stories about Foxconn turned out to be a tissue of lies.
I'm sure the reports of suicide nets and riots are all lies. I'm sure when the simpering Apple executive describing why American will will ensure a phone is never made again be made in America to the president, described waking them the workforce up in the night to get them to make last minute changes to the iphone...and giving them a biscuit.
Personally I find it disgusting you think that its acceptable that workers are treated that way anywhere.
There is no possible way that 1.3 million android phones are sold every day.
World wide units shipments;1st Quarter 2012.
Sorry you are mistaken its not *Shipped* or *Sold* its *Activated*. http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2012/09/06/android-activations-hit-13m.htm. It also includes tablets although does not include none Google android.
If you mean increased by 80% as slipping away.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/05/01/apple-samsung-idc-market-share/
No I mean the year on year drop worldwide from 18.8% to 16.9% and yes my link is to IDC figures. Perhaps you should be a less US centric...the internet has been around for sometime. FYI Androids Market share grew from 46.9 % to 68.1% in the same period.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/worldwide-market-share-for-smartphones-a-market-dominated-by-apple-and-android/2012/09/11/c3e683d2-fc38-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html
"Allwinner"? That sounds like a real quality hardware company, there. Good luck with that.
Then your buying a brand, but lets be fair ZTE and Huawei Offer excellent low to mid range products, and they are very well known. I suspect your Carrier builds everything on these companies hardware.
Ever since Apple went bankrupt after it tried to sell that disastrous mp3 "pod" player thing in the early 2000s (not as much space as my Nomad but more expensive? no thanks!),
I remember my history being different, Apple had an MP3 player at EVERY price point...and still do. The iPod was more expensive than the competition, but unlike the iPhone/iPad not by a lot, but they had branding and were universal, a monopoly in every sense.
You know, I just can't stand hyperbole! I will have to kill myself over this. Why, every single hardware article is about how the PC is DEAD! How hardware is dying! And on and on a million times a day! Can't the media stop it?! No they can't. This will go on FOREVER and EVER!
Because the massive growth in mobile dedicated computing [smartphones, Tablets] , is undeniable. Putting your head in the sand, and pretending its will not change the fact.
because somewhere, some poor bastard always pays the difference in terms of lowered wages, slavelike labour, oh and of course there are dollars to save by screwing up the environment by improper mining and waste disposal.
As we have seen even Apple use Foxconn
The part quality hasn't played significant role in tablet manufacturing. The part count itself is relatively low and what consumers really care is build quality. You really cannot expect $45 device to survive if you knock it to the floor from sofa but the build quality on more expensive devices give the device a fighting chance.
You have to remember that the iPhone is worth in parts only a sixth of its price, a little over twice the price of the device in question, and that's for an allegedly cutting edge product [sic]. Have a look at those cheaper Android phones, You will be shocked at how impressive they are.