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ever worked on a group project where you did all the work but you're lazy partner
put his name on it too and got an easy a or maybe it would be more relevant to
ask if you've ever written the paper that someone else paid you for well
while the latter would get you kicked out of most universities for academic
dishonesty something similar is actually a widespread and perfectly accepted
practice in the technology industry I'm talking about the use of original
equipment manufacturers or OMS so here's
how it works think about the last time you visited a fast-food joint like
McDonald's chances are if you walk around back you'll see some dumpsters
and a few teenagers with nowhere else to be not a patch of land where McDonald's
is raising its own cows growing its own potatoes and refining its own sugar for
the soda fountain well I'm sure it seems obvious now that we mentioned it but
McDonald's buys all that stuff from outside companies cooks it and then
Marcus it as the Big Mac value meal that you happily gobble up the reason for
this is that it's far cheaper and easier for them to outsource farming and even
some other processes like baking buns than it is for them to build a thousand
barns and raise millions of chickens by themselves so bringing this back to the
tech world many of the companies that you think of as businesses that make
electronics don't actually make electronics at all a great example of
this is Apple Apple doesn't use its own factories to produce the iPhone rather
they're all made by companies like Foxconn and Pegatron headquartered in
Taiwan who used to spec's the Apple sends to them and indeed many different
electronics are manufactured this way a design team at company a will come up
with a product idea and design a schematic but then pay Company B to
actually make it even though company B's name never shows up on the products you
end up buying I mean can you imagine that the Foxconn iPhone X another thing
that makes the iPhone such an interesting example is the fact that Apple could afford to build their own
factories but they don't the reality is that supervising the process but leaving
a manufacturing specialist to actually build the devices saves them tons of
money they save on the upfront cost of building the facility they save on labor
and they can leverage the supply chain expertise and the overall volley Bellus
large manufacturers acquire raw materials in bulk at great prices
remember Foxconn makes a lot more than just iPhones other manufacturers even
take things a step farther and make their own product lineups without any
speck from any outside company then sell these wholesale to companies who will
slap their own badge on them and maybe provide a few extras like additional
warranty support or aesthetic improvements this variation makes the
manufacture of more of an OD M with the D standing for design and is a frequent
practice with power supply brands for example to our knowledge ROS will and
fractal designs aren't evolves for the technical design process of their own PS
use at all instead buying and rebranding
units designed by ODMs now to be clear this isn't me that they're bad at all
and sometimes there can be a benefit see sonic for example both bills and sells
their own power supplies but often their prices are higher than the brand's who
are rebadging what is in some cases fundamentally the same units but Jon why
do I keep hearing people refer to companies like Dell and HP as OMS when
they use lots of third-party components and their pre-built computers well
that's a good point maybe a better term would be original equipment assemblers
but regardless people do use the term OAM when they're talking about companies
that sell pre bills as well which is why om versions of Windows cost less
although the software is the same that are meant for businesses that sell pcs
and provide their own support to customers meaning Microsoft won't give
you any warranty support if there's a problem well let's get back to our
original definition though because OMS are so common in the tech world
sometimes we'll see a problem affect many different brands because they were
using the same OAM this was speculated to have happened during the infamous
capacitor plague of the early 2000s when several well-known brands had widespread
issues with faulty products due to bad capacitors provided by an outside
manufacturer so if you really want to know what's inside that shiny new power
supply or monitor you just bought do your homework and see if you can
identify which OMS if any were used you
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