Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China – NYTimes.com In the Hutong Working like hell 1530 hrs. In what China-based business sustainability expert Richard Brubaker calls “the best piece to date on just how rotten [Apple's] supply chain is,” Charles Duhigg and David Barboza of The New York Times have actually done more [...]
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The Beginning of the End of Outsourcing
Posted by David Wolf on February 7, 2012
http://siliconhutong.com/2012/02/07/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-outsourcing/
There is More to Tablets than Cheap vs. Dear
How Apple Can Keep Control of the Tablet Market – BusinessWeek. GigaOM‘s Darrell Etherington believes that the way for Apple to sustain its dominance in the tablet market in response to challenges from the Kindle Fire is to offer a smaller, cheaper tablet. The case he makes – that a cheap tablet with a [...]
Posted by David Wolf on January 17, 2012
http://siliconhutong.com/2012/01/17/there-is-more-to-tablets-than-cheap-vs-dear/
China and the Oracle Gambit, or The Coming Softwar with China
In the Hutong Still in Uniform 2052 hrs. Not only I am one of that growing number of believers who expects Oracle to make a bid for a major computer hardware manufacturer, I also think it will be a good thing. Whatever the virtues of the present structure of the enterprise I.T. industry, the average [...]
Posted by David Wolf on September 27, 2010
http://siliconhutong.com/2010/09/27/china-and-the-oracle-gambit-or-the-coming-softwar-with-china/
Cheerleading the Bankers
Starbucks, China World Tower 2, Beijing In the course of human events 1001 hrs. Contemplating the irrational messiness of China’s corporate landscape, investment bankers around the world must salivate in anticipation of the fees and bonuses that will be theirs when they finally convince China’s ambitious business leaders that mergers and acquisitions are a viable [...]
Posted by David Wolf on February 10, 2010
http://siliconhutong.com/2010/02/10/cheerleading-the-bankers/
Four Handhelds, three computers, two email accounts, one little problem
Starbucks Pacific Place Dreaming in Kodachrome 1412 hours I’m about to spend a bunch of posts diving into the promise and reality of 3G in China, but before I do, a brief call to all of my friends in the information technology business. Not Different, Just Extreme I sit down at a table and lay [...]
Posted by David Wolf on May 20, 2009
http://siliconhutong.com/2009/05/20/four-handhelds-three-computers-two-email-accounts-one-little-problem/
The Lenovo Retreat
n the Hutong Dreaming of summer 1920 hrs. Jason Dean at The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Lenovo has replaced CEO Bill Amelio with Chairman Yang Yuanqing, and that co-founder Liu Chuanzhi is returning from his pasture to resume a seat on the board. They’re also upping senior VP Rory Read to the new [...]
Posted by David Wolf on February 5, 2009
http://siliconhutong.com/2009/02/05/the-lenovo-retreat/
Why Land Reform is a Tech Opportunity
In the Hutong There’s something about a high-fiber snack… 16:23 hrs. In the flurry of news about plans to reform land use in China, much of the coverages focuses on the new potential for Chinese farmers to either pay to farm the land of others, or to indeed expand their own plots by renting more [...]
Posted by David Wolf on November 24, 2008
http://siliconhutong.com/2008/11/24/why-land-reform-is-a-tech-opportunity/
Apple’s Bi-Polar China Disorder
In the Hutong To breakfast, or not to breakfast 0936 hrs. So here is the deal. Apple starts selling an album called “Songs for Tibet” on its iTunes Music Store (iTMS), and they do it right in the middle of the Beijing Olympics. Coincidence, or passive-aggressive middle finger to China? Apple isn’t saying anything about [...]
Posted by David Wolf on August 20, 2008
http://siliconhutong.com/2008/08/20/apples-bi-polar-china-disorder/
Cupertino Dreamin’
Xiao Yun Road, Inbound Is this fog, or did someone flock the smog? 1607 hrs. Sitting here in Beijing and placating my inner frustrated geek as I will yet again miss both the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco, I take consolation that I am not among those thousands of [...]
Posted by David Wolf on December 29, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/12/29/cupertino-dreamin/
Dell: The Channel is not the Product
The Silicon Hutong Suite Grand Hyatt Singapore 1041 hrs. Dell’s agreement to sell computers through Gome is a sign that the folks in Round Rock have come to an important conclusion: they can – and in many places around the world, must – adjust the way they do business in order to sell their product. [...]
Posted by David Wolf on September 27, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/09/27/dell-the-channel-is-not-the-product/
The Dawn of the Age of Disposable Video
The Silicon Hutong Room, Wynn Las Vegas Hotel Looking out over the lights of the insomnia capital of the world 0037 hrs. I know it sounds like a really bad Kodak commercial, but there really are moments in your life that you wish you could capture and just hold. This is one of them. My [...]
Posted by David Wolf on July 31, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/07/31/the-dawn-of-the-age-of-disposable-video/
Happy Birthday, Mac
In the Hutong Geeking out and Maccing off 1637 hrs. I don’t know about you all, but when I was using Windows I seemed to go through a laptop about every 18 months to two years. Somehow, in that period of time, normal wear-and-tear would render the things unstable, slow, and eventually unusable. My first [...]
Posted by David Wolf on April 30, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/04/30/happy-birthday-mac/
Ask Mary Ma: Are Chinese Companies Ready to Go Abroad?
In the Hutong Catching up on reading 0200 hrs. Gordon Orr and Jane Xing of McKinsey cornered Mary Ma for an interview and asked the normally publicity-shy CFO about her thinking on whether Chinese companies are ready to go abroad. Her answer was interesting: “Chinese companies are better prepared to invest abroad than many people [...]
Posted by David Wolf on April 21, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/04/21/ask-mary-ma-are-chinese-companies-ready-to-go-abroad/
Too soon to Dell
In the Hutong Watching Silverado 2300 hrs. Back at the beginning of February I wrote that the troubles that have led Dell to boot Kevin Rollins and to create what the company is calling “Dell 2.0″ all began when the company’s business model hit a high water mark in China in 2004. (“Dell Freezes Over“). [...]
Posted by David Wolf on April 20, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/04/20/too-soon-to-dell/
Intel Makes Dalian Fab
In the Hutong Unsure who is suffering more through my son’s piano lessons: him, me, or his teacher 1216 hrs. One point to add to the increasingly vigorous debate around Intel’s plan to set up a semiconductor fabrication facility (“fab”) in China: Intel ranks high in my ratings of companies who are China savvy, and [...]
Posted by David Wolf on March 19, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/03/19/intel-makes-dalian-fab/
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