Why we have crappy tech toys in North America

Everybody’s blogged this article this week. It’s annoying to read about new technologies and have to wait so long to get them here. Plus in the Bay Area it was always in your face because so many asians would bring things home from travelling and you’d see a decent amount of them, but not be able to buy them (except maybe at a huuuuge import markup).
Reading their reasons though makes me kind of glad our culture and market don’t support the sale of the latest and greatest stuff until it’s become more commoditised. Although their emphasis on quality infrastructure tendency and towards small and integrated products would be welcome compared with the supersized and redundant wasteful consumption while crippling basic infrastructure with underinvestment that’s the normal mode of operation here.