tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post2489431586793542152..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: OEMBucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-51955006411828438472012-12-26T19:03:05.815-08:002012-12-26T19:03:05.815-08:00I'm thinking the distinction is in what you bu...I'm thinking the distinction is in what you buy: if I go out to buy an optical drive, I buy the Toshiba. If I'm buying an iPad, I'm buying Apple, not Toshiba. (Similarly, if I send the computer to Apple for repair, it's an Apple repair. If I switch the drive myself, I'm buying a Toshiba.)<br /><br />Recent history has created the Grotesque Parody of OEM: spinning a section of the Supply Chain (think car parts manufacturing: Delphi, Visteon) to pretend that it's independent of the company. This is the equivalent of the old economist's joke about the Village Idiot who the town hires to ring a bell in the town square and eventually buys his own bell and calls himself an "entrepreneur."<br /><br />But it still boils down to: what are you trying to buy?Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.com