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Apple manufacture in china.

Samsung manufacture in china.

Designed in California doesn't mean made in America.

BYD in my mind would be the one of the pinnacles of Chinese goods, but they only sell locally. As far as I know

I do not consider a lot of Apple or Samsung goods to be of high quality. Especially the small cheap goods like smartphones -- I've owned phones from both now and both are disappointing in terms of long term reliability. The Samsung especially I do not expect to last long, and the Apple phone was barely usable at three years old.

Of the goods of theirs that I've had luck with, expensive laptops and televisions -- critical components like LCD's are not made in China, and the processes to create Macbooks are very automated and said processes are designed to deliver quality for that product line alone.

Remember, low-quality cheap Dell laptops and RCA/WalMart TV's are also made in China.

For every iPad/Nex7 that comes out of China, how many <$100 WalGreens bargain bin Android tablets running 2.X come out?

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