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[cobito]

*Granada: Andalusian city, not the country.
**You can choose multiple options.

Imagine you are going to buy a product in which there are electronic elements involved at the same time that the design of the same is important and that it is an exclusive design of which a large series is not going to come out.

You find the product in the store and you turn it over to see the characteristics of the same. Next to the characteristics sticker appears the "Made in".

What do you find more reliable? What origin gives you more feeling of reliability, quality and exclusivity?

[krampak]

Man, the made in Europe is very generic, I don't think it exists. It's not the same as a made in Germany as a made in Kazakhstan to say something XD I would focus more on the brand than on the country of manufacture, because I imagine that each company has its own quality standards. You can buy a Tagheuer or a NoMeMires and both are manufactured in China (which is not the case xD), but you know that one gives much more confidence.

Sticking to your question I wouldn't know what to answer :ugly:

[cobito]

The brand is completely unknown.

The Made in Europe, the truth is that I have only seen it on products that are decades old: I remember an electronic typewriter from the 80s made in Germany with the seal "Made in Europe", "European quality".

Since China has become the manufacturer of the world, this type of seal has almost completely disappeared.

[Tecnho]

I'm sticking with Europe, what are you trying to analyze cobito?

[whoololon]

It's very funny, and I'll explain why.

The other day I went to buy a new mixer (the other one broke at the worst possible time), and because I was in a hurry, I went to a small household goods store in my neighborhood that I trust.
I saw a Torus and a Solar (I'm avoiding brand names) and I chose the Torus (which is also Spanish), because they have always had the best windings (you have to be a very tough man to burn out the motor of that brand, although in plastics it's pretty normal to be bad).. and the nice man told me that both are now manufactured in China, that the good Torus ones were the ones made in Barcelona, and that's not happening anymore; and he refused to sell them to me because, and I quote "he would rather not sell them than have them returned in two weeks because they broke."
In the end I had to go to a shopping center and get a Brain (that brand or Mulinés was recommended to me), and I realized that they were the only ones that were not made in China (the one I bought is Polish).

And the made in Spain thing... as long as it's not technology or mechanics... ;D

[kynes]

I prefer Made in Taiwan or South Korea, those two countries really give me good feelings in terms of electronics Of the options, Made in the EU.

[Sylver]

Made in Granada man, good land there

[garfield]

It really doesn't matter where it's manufactured as long as it follows the standard of the parent company. In China, you can buy junk or something of quality.
For example, the inks for my plotter are manufactured in Indonesia by Epson.

[amd125]

I'm from Europe, unless they are hams, which I prefer from Granada. :ugly:

[Nemo]

Mini point for European products, especially if they are made in Germany. Regarding what is produced in China, I agree with what has been commented. After all, iPhones are manufactured in China and they strut around showing off their great quality.

Best regards.

[Tecnho]

@Nemo:

Mini point for European products, especially if they are made in Germany. Regarding what is produced in China, I agree with what has been commented. After all, iPhones are made in China and they strut around with their great quality.

Best regards.

Made in China design California I think they put ;D

[Mystique]

It says exactly this:
Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China

[cobito]

Thanks for the answers.

As whoololon said, it has sometimes happened that Western companies that have outsourced production have done so to the detriment of quality. But it is also true that all qualities are manufactured in China: from the worst junk that lasts two uses to the "more classy" equipment like Apple devices.

@Tecnho:

I'll stick with europe, what are you trying to analyze cobito?

It is possible that in a few months I will embark with some colleagues on the adventure of selling a product with the characteristics that I mentioned in the first post. Technologically it is not cutting-edge, but the combination with the design may make it have a market.

The "problem" of this whole issue is that if it goes ahead, it will be manufactured in Spain. And unfortunately our country does not have a reputation for being technological (I wouldn't say it has a bad reputation but what is certain is that it doesn't have a good one).

On this subject, which is an exclusive matter of marketing, we didn't have the ideas very clear.

[whoololon]

…damn, I don't know why but now I feel like the fool who got tricked. :ugly:

Anyway, this reminds me of the Lopez rays from Faemino and Cansado. :risitas:

[cobito]

@whoololon:

…joer, no sé porqué pero ahora me siento como el tonto que ha picado. :ugly:

Not at all. The truth is that the drop in quality is evident in many products. It is also true that there is the issue of programmed obsolescence. Everything will have to do with it.

I spent several months looking and buying components in China (because no matter how "Made in my town" this ends up being, there are components that are only manufactured in China, especially those related to semiconductors) and it is curious because you find generic components of everything. In the example of the mixers you put, I imagine it perfectly: they went to China, there they manufacture motors of such size, such revolutions and with such power that they are used for a thousand applications and those for the mixers said "well, one of these that also come out several times cheaper than those manufactured in Spain".

Et voila, a mixer for a tenth of the manufacturing price in Spain and with Chinese quality standards because if that is the case, those motors are not Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. They are Designed in China. Assembled in China.

[garfield]

Cobito, you have the case of the geekphone and BQ.
Regarding China, in an article I read that in 2016 it will be the same to manufacture in Europe as in China, because it is the same thing that has been happening in countries where the labor was very cheap: you sell expensive what I manufacture cheap and on top of that you give me less… and a s...
I think that now China is only 30% cheaper than Europe. Let time pass and what it will dictate is more that the product is of quality than where it is manufactured. I don't know in what tool it put MADE IN USA, until you took out the rubber fist it brought and put MADE IN CHINA.

[cobito]

@garfield:

Cobito, tienes el caso del geekphone y de BQ.
Respecto a China, en un artículo leí que en 2016 saldrá igual fabricar en Europa que en China, porque es lo mismo que ha ido pasando en los países donde la mano de obra era muy barata: vendes caro lo que yo te fabrico barato y encima a mi me das menos… y una m....
Creo que ahora China es sólo un 30% más barato que Europa. Deja que pase el tiempo y lo que va a mandar es más que el producto sea de calidad que de dónde está fabricado. No se en que herramienta ponía MADE IN USA, hasta que sacabas el puño de goma de traía y ponía MADE IN CHINA.

Esta es la imagen que dices:

Hombre, un 30% puede llegar a ser muchísimo dependiendo del producto. De todas formas cuando en China cueste fabricar lo mismo que en Europa, la producción no volverá aquí, eso seguro (por algo a China le resulta tan interesante África).

[garfield]

That was it.

Of course it won't go back to Europe, it will go to India or something like that. Look at the clothes that were made in China, now they are made in Bangladesh

[Bm4n]

Call me crazy or old-fashioned, but there's a lack of a made in japan that for me will continue to be a quality origin in electronics (despite the fact that they hardly manufacture), and a made in taiwan/korea/hongkong that would be a bit more expensive than made in china and is still being manufactured. So they are the typical origins, but the design has nothing to do with it... Look at Apple, designed in California, manufactured in china and assembled in albuquerque or some part of USA (as they intend to do from now on). Even so, I think a made in japan would bring together both things for my taste.

PD. If you want Spanish public, putting that it is designed or assembled here is good publicity, not manufactured because no one will swallow it, now facing abroad it is better made in EU.

[whoololon]

What I have clear are two things, one, that if I design it at home and manufacture it in China, it is made in China. Apart from that, I wonder how I can sell it to my neighbors who are unemployed. And the second, and it is my opinion that the person who buys an iPhone cares a:mudo: where they made it... which is already a triumph. :risitas:

Regarding the made in Ethiopia thing... time will tell.

Edit: I was going to compile all those things that were and are done well, and that were or are "made in Spain". (Sounds offensive Spain in English, this is not-pain...)
But that list was going to be almost a doctoral thesis, so I think I'll skip it. <:(