August 20, 2005

trumpet blowing

never a day passes without any trumpet blowin from the wee islet.

especially so if a "home-grown" - whatever that means - manufacturer makes inroads overseas.

make that, market domination in the overseas [read: EU and US] markets. this time, wee island assembled [as opposed to "made in..."] personal computer's will be sold at asda wal-mart all over the UK. hoping to make massive profit's by crimbo - very opportunistic, that.

i mentioned wee island-assembled 'cos all those various parts inside are made elsewhere, like thailand and vietnam where IC chips and component's are produced en-masse. additionally, plants making disk drives shifted to china and malaysia after the last economic downturn. the last well-known US hard-disk manufacturer shut their operation's down just a few year's ago.

all due to the availability of cheaper [ie: exploitable] manual labour, lower overhead costs; and the islet's grand ambition's of becoming a knowledge-based economy.

besides, the MD's name sounds mightily subcontinental indian, it makes skirling's off a bagpipe sound sweeter.

erm, which actually is. skirling's i meant.

as enscribed by the letter b @ August 20, 2005 02:41 PM | someone's pinged
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