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With the ability to offer low prices without compromising on technical specs, Chinese manufacturers of consumer video surveillance devices will outpace their US peers if market share boils down to a simple price war:
Chinese video surveillance equipment makers accounted for some 5 percent of US market revenue last year, but high demand and supply in the China market could prove a "ticking time bomb" for US players, said Jimmy Dearing, IHS Markit's residential security analyst.
[...] Increased smartphone adoption had fuelled consumer demand for surveillance, Dearing said, adding that the mobile devices offered video surveillance makers a platform to develop their user interfaces and offer consumers access to their surveillance systems from anywhere. Demand also was driven by better wireless technology, mobile data coverage, and connection speeds, as well as cloud storage and analytics services.
The affordability of such equipment further drove demand, with camera prices dropping by 50 percent in the past three years, the analyst said. This, he noted, could pose challenges to some players in price-sensitive markets, where suppliers offering the lowest prices eventually would gain control.
[...] "Should these Chinese manufacturers intensify their export attempts, this could present the current US market incumbents with a real problem," he said. "US suppliers are unable to compete at these prices because most of them actually OEM their product from a Chinese manufacturer to begin with. If the battle for market share ever came down to simple price war the Chinese OEMs would win, without question."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:38PM
Well then, let's bring everything back into the US of A! Put tariffs on anything entering the country! Also, free market principles should be followed by all other countries so that they can buy our stuff which cannot, I repeat, CANNOT have any tariffs on it!
#MakeAmericaIntoSomethingItNeverWasAgain and #MythOfTheNation!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:51PM
Other countries do rig the game to protect local jobs. They may be trading citizen purchase power for jobs, but lack of jobs angers citizens much more than lack of purchasing power outside of food. Lack of jobs for young men has created many wars and terror groups, but lack of ability go buy gizmos (outside of food) has not.
Politicians will often talk about creating jobs, but RARELY do you ever hear, "I promise cheaper lawn chairs and cigarette lighters!". That one can buy more gizmos with an unemployment check is hardly a political selling point to most people.
I agree that open trade may boost the overall economy of a country even if other countries don't play fair, but often the benefits of that boost don't flow evenly, which may account for why the rich got richer and the rest stagnated when trade went up in the US.