And the product that they were reverse engineered for, the iCufflinks
http://www.adafruit.com/icufflinks
Quite appealing if you ask me, if a bit bulky for cufflinks :)
http://www.adafruit.com/icufflinks
Quite appealing if you ask me, if a bit bulky for cufflinks :)
Funny story: At the end of the 19th century Great Britain pushed for all products to be branded with their country of origin, not to market their products better but for protectionism – to make it easier for customers to recognize real or perceived knock-offs.
That works if those other countries really make inferior products but it backfires when other countries make products of equal or better quality. “Made in Germany” (for example) then becomes a mark of quality, not inferiority.
It applies more to food I guess, but the principle is the same.
Personally, I like keeping money in the local economy when it makes sense to.
But yes, you're right, it's quite an assumption. On a parallel (OT) note, I have no idea whether there is a political bias amongst geeks. I've read some pool from NSF a few years ago and it was quite impressive how scientists tend to be left wing/liberal, why engineers tend to be right wing/conservative. So politically speaking there's probably two kinds of geeks but how about two kind of hackers?
This is obviously open to some debate; your condescending declarations of certainty are grating and rude.