BlackBerry - Made in Canada?
- And common misconception of RIM and Blackberry is that they are low on money...the problem is that they are having trouble in the north American smartphone market, not a money issue. RIM brings in huge revenue every week/month from markets in other countries.
Since RIM makes so much money and has so much money to spend, I think they should start hiring people in Canada, BlackBerry's home country, to assemble the smartphones and playbooks. Foreign assembly lines have proven lower-quality a lot of the time. Not ALL of the time, but too often in my opinion. Plus I think people in the US and especially Canada would enjoy seeing a "made in Canada" imprint on the back of the device. In school, it is a common discussion in some of my classes when we get off track about where certain products are made. Cellphones come up very commonly. Just by listening to them I noticed that they all wish that their clothes, smartphones, cars etc. Were made in canada or the US. It seems to be a growing trend, in young adults anyway, of caring where products are assembled.
Bottom line, I think that BlackBerry's should be made in Canada to improve RIM's image in a small yet important way. Apple's assembly factories have high suicide rates which disgusts me...an extremely rich and profitable north American company using foreigners to build their electronics in dismal, depressing factories.
RIM, use your money to restore your image, bit by bit.
Just my opinion05-19-12 10:15 PMLike 0 - The two BlackBerry devices I owned were North American made. Both were made in Mexico.
Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express05-19-12 10:18 PMLike 0 - amazinglygracelessRetired ModJust two (2) quick points:
1) Having had BlackBerry devices, as well as others, from all over the map, I have yet to notice
any material differences in quality.
2) Following your logic, you are advising RIM to double, triple, maybe even quadruple its labor
cost and by extension negatively affect it's bottom line for the sake of taking a (pardon my
expression here) pie in the sky moral high ground.
There is a reason these companies have manufacturing and other services elsewhere. Reduced
labor cost, reduced ancillary benefits, almost no labor unions to have to deal with, and the list
goes on.
I for one am good with this.Laura Knotek likes this.05-19-12 10:28 PMLike 1 - I agree with amazinglygraceless.
I had no issues with the build quality of my BlackBerry devices, nor with the build quality of any other electronic devices I've owned, no matter where those devices were manufactured or assembled.
Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express05-20-12 12:27 AMLike 0 -
- RIM still has factory in Canada, it is largely used for NPI (new product introduction). And they are pumping large quantities as well. After NPI process phones are made in other factories as well in order to meet quantitiy requirements. RIM's factories and placed all over the world and they supply their respective regions.
One think to keep in mind is that labor cost (per worker) doesn't differ much between north america and other parts of the world. Biggest reason why Apple decided to have their products built by contractor manufacturer in China is becaue all of the components are built in China and working culture is much different there. There are millions of people living in villages that come to cities to work and they live in dormatories of 12 people and instead of spending their free time in dorms they work. This is the biggest reason why RIM has factories outside of Canada, its because north americans are lazier than the rest of the world and quantities would not be met. And also because components are made all over the world.05-20-12 11:17 AMLike 0 - Just two (2) quick points:
1) Having had BlackBerry devices, as well as others, from all over the map, I have yet to notice
any material differences in quality.
2) Following your logic, you are advising RIM to double, triple, maybe even quadruple its labor
cost and by extension negatively affect it's bottom line for the sake of taking a (pardon my
expression here) pie in the sky moral high ground.
There is a reason these companies have manufacturing and other services elsewhere. Reduced
labor cost, reduced ancillary benefits, almost no labor unions to have to deal with, and the list
goes on.
I for one am good with this.
then you factor in governments, more so than people or labour unions, governments stall business development with red tape, this happens far less in the Asian nations,
Work Ethic is another factor, North Americans by in large have an entitlement attitude to their work/life balance, that isn't the case in the manufacturing nations, they go to work to work, and work long and hard, and usually more efficiently, which does reduce labour costs, but not in the way that it is usually portrayed , it isn't just cheaper labour, it is better labourersLaura Knotek and JR A like this.05-20-12 11:20 AMLike 2 -
- 05-20-12 02:24 PMLike 0
- We may soon see the tide reversing and jobs returning to submerging markets. The pressure to contain costs and improve operating efficiencies is pretty intense. Is there a job to be found anywhere that doesn't have a balanced scorecard and performance metrics now?
In our North American operations we've had virtually zero growth in wages for nearly a decade now, but our overseas operations are seeing double digit growth in wage costs annually and (as far as I know) they are earning five digit salaries along with company paid lunch and the company provides free transportation to and from work.05-20-12 02:41 PMLike 0
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