Hi, my name is MadHound, and I use a (insert electronic device here) made in China.

[joshcryer]

17. It is never "foolish" to denigrate the worst offenders with the most profits.

Never. In fact, that is the most effective way to get good things to happen, because the most profitable actors don't want deal with the fallout from not acting. And, they can act more reasonably than other companies which have much lower margins and are just sucking at the teat of the larger offenders, whose businesses, in fact, wouldn't even run if it wasn't for the larger offenders' existence.

The price on an Apple product will in fact not rise, as they charge 3-6 times the cost to make the things. I can easily envision producing Apple products here, the profits would, however, be meager at best.

Apple, MS, all these large corporations are destined to fail and be an ancient memory in only a few decades. Technological development is moving at such a pace as to render such corporations moot. It's going to be an amazing day when we can buy an Open Hardware based device running Linux or some other FOSS operating system that has visual fidelity of reality, and is as big as a pocket watch. For half the cost of these crappy dirty screen tablets that everyone is fawning over at this point.