{"id":32,"date":"2005-05-08T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-05-08T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2005-05-08T17:02:29","slug":"whos_outsourcin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s outsourcing whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Einhorn has a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_20\/b3933011.htm\">article on Taiwan<\/a> in Business Week. Taiwanese companies, he reports, now control 72% of the world\u2019s production of portable computers, 68% of LCD displays, 70% of microchips, and 79% of PDAs \u2013 as well as a third of the markets for manufacturing servers and digital cameras. With the most sought-after engineers of tech products, the island is becoming the brains of the world\u2019s IT industry. My favorite line in the piece comes from MIT\u2019s Victor Zue: \u201cIn Taiwan, people say the U.S. understanding of outsourcing is backward. It feels more like the Taiwanese are outsourcing marketing and branding to the rest of the world.\u201d Taiwan\u2019s the organ grinder. We\u2019re the monkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is becoming the superpower of the tech world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}