Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: User's Evaluation of Handheld Cellular: Fujitsu vs Motorola Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 07:43:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 46 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 220, Message 3 of 10 Craig Ibbotson writes: > Call me a blind patriot (and possibly a blind Motorola employee) but > if the two of these portables come up even (as was suggested), I would > have to think people in the U.S. would opt for the phone that is made > in America by American workers for an American company. For openers, let me say that both of my cellular phones are Motorola: a MicroTac and an old in-car unit (I forget what). They are most satisfactory. That said, I must disagree most strenuously with the apparent statement in the quoted paragraph. Being made in America is NOT a reason to buy anything. One should buy on the basis of need and fulfillment. If one's needs are fulfilled by a product and the price is right, it should be purchased. To buy product just because it is "American" possibly rewards a company for building inferior wares. (Definitely not the case with Motorola.) > The factory where they make the MicroTac is next door to my building, > and I think it is fantastic to see such high-quality products coming > out of a U.S. factory with American factory workers. Look at the above comment. Is it not a sad commentary that one considers it "fantastic" that a US factory with American workers would build high-quality products? Does this mean that the norm is over-priced, shoddy, worthless junk? Would that there come a time, once again, that we all could consider American products to be routinely of high workmanship and value and not be amazed by it when it occurs. > Finally, a U.S. manufacturer who can do it right. So let us reward those American businesses that do it right by patronizing their goods and avoid the others until they, too, can "do it right". > Go for the Motorola phone. I am certainly happy with mine. But buy it because it is good, not because it is "American". John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !