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Disruptive Chinese factories

By David Canton

No - not in the sense of being polluters, or making toxic products - but in the sense of new ways to design, market and sell products that are disruptive to the whole supply chain.

Robert Scoble has an interesting article on the subject.  It says in part:

Yesterday he showed me a new gadget that will get on blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo, Obsessable, GearLive, Gdgt, CrunchGear. It is mind blowing. The engineering is done all in China. The factories are all in China. The website will be hosted in China, or maybe over on one of the new clouds that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Rackspace are now opening up. The brand name will be done in China, via Twitter and FriendFeed. The PR is done in China via Twitter and FriendFeed, or maybe via a blogger tour in San Francisco and New York because that?s where most of the gadget bloggers live (last night CNN?s Rick Sanchez Twittered me, which demonstrates that Twitter has a powerful reach now into mainstream media).

This is total ownership of everything. Total disruption of everyone who used to make money along the supply chain. Retailers? Disrupted. Traders and middlemen and distributors? Disrupted. Web designers and developers? Disrupted.

Full post as published by eLegal Canton on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).