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Fewer and fewer famous brands make what they sell. Apple no longer assembles the bulk of the iMacs it sells. Hewlett-Packard, the world's leading brand of personal printers, doesn't make a single one. Nor does Cisco make the complex digital switches and routers that make up the backbone of the Internet. Instead, each of these companies (and the list grows daily) is throwing its financial and intellectual capital into product research, design and innovation--conceiving the next generation of gadgets and services, and marketing them under trusted brands...
...warm to drink as Randy Furr, president and COO of Sanmina, made the pitch for his younger firm, then worth $7.7 billion, to buy SCI, then worth $4 billion, and considered a pioneer in the fast-growing business of manufacturing tech hardware for name-brand companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia. After nearly a day's wrangling, Furr could not get Eugene Sapp, chief executive officer of SCI, to agree on anything, except that they would meet again...
PRINTS CHARMING There's a reason you hide your printer under the desk: printers are the plain Janes of the home office. But the P-2600 ($50) from Apollo, a unit of Hewlett-Packard, begs to be displayed. It comes in midnight blue and white and boasts an appealing round-edged design. Print speed is a respectable seven pages a minute for black and white. Color printing is slower, but at least you'll enjoy the view...
...While the locals fight it out, multinationals?with the exception of Microsoft?remain warily on the sidelines, unsure if they can profit in China's savage market. Today, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have a combined market share of under 3%; Palm and IBM don't even sell PDAs on the mainland and there isn't enough Mandarin software to spur consumer interest. "We know this is a weakness," concedes Franklin Sze, product director for Compaq's iPAQ in Greater China. Preoccupied with tough times at home and hobbled by supply problems, U.S. PDA manufacturers have focused international efforts instead...
...trouble started with the software that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...