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To: elmatador who wrote (5145)	3/31/2006 2:18:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218777

ElM, I think you are right that China will help get the price down to where it should be. But I have seen their CDMA marketing efforts up close and personal and my guess is that they will just do the traditional cheap and nasty, as Japan did in the 1950s and 1960s. They don't respect, admire, and appreciate their customers. Most companies don't. Very few do. Nearly all companies see customers more like a paddock full of sheep to be fleeced rather than a synergistic part of their own being. China is very far from that concept. Watch how they treat animals to see what they think of customers. It was only in recent decades that Japan figured out that high quality AND cheap were an excellent combination and the way to beat the rest. But their products didn't include love. To be complete, each product should be suffused with love as well as the physical essentials. It's very easy to succeed in business because around the world, 90% of people live in the commercial stone age [in the way they think about customers]. I don't think China will do much other than chop prices, which is an excellent contribution. The good thing about markets is that various parties bring various talents into play and that forces others to respond or go out of business. Bit by bit, things do improve, albeit reluctantly on the part of most. People prefer to do a bad job. Look at Globalstar as my favourite example. They destroyed a vast business opportunity and legions of customers never enjoyed what they should have done. Now, belatedly, they are finally starting to show glimmers of the "right stuff". But they are still only glimmers. newswire.ca They are doing something sensible, which they should have done long ago, and talking it up as though it's a really big deal. It is only since the new shareholders took over that things have started to improve. But it's still pathetic. They have gone from totally pathetic to normal, which means bad [compared with how good it should be]. Mqurice