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Originally Posted by Finnster

EG. Foxconn.
The world's largest electronics manufacturer you've likely never heard of.
The build all the ipods, iphones, etc as well as products for Dell, HP, & a host of others. The one factory in China employs almost 500,000 people there. Hell, maybe they even built that charger and all its clones.

And if it wasn't this way everyone would complain about the prices.

I actually had someone argue with me that Apple actually made their own phones etc. It was funny.

There are also really only three manufacturers of laptops as well. If you search around you can find direct importers and buy the same ones as the big name brands for much cheaper with excellent support.

It's the same with a lot of products. Even food and medicines. I stopped buying name brand OTC medicines years ago and my body can't tell the difference.