As the economy has grown, the property market has become more regulated and product quality has improved, leading to a huge increase in demand.
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Certainly this strategy cuts costs and improves product quality, but it has another unintended consequence: it nurtures corporate complacency.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook apologized for the product's quality, and Apple has been working to improve it.
And GM, whose quality has sped up the charts of independent surveys, has a very busy product development plan.
From its initial search product, the company has continually innovated to improve the quality of search results (preventing multiple searches), return those results in fewer milliseconds and then auto-complete as you type to shave off still more.
The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.
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Whether And1 is capable of reaching its former status among the basketball apparel elite remains to be seen, but as the recent rise of Under Armour has shown, there is always room in the market for more quality product.
"I think the authenticity and the raw African-ness of 'The Lion King' is a bigger selling point than any other product that has ever been on Broadway or on stage, done with a world-class quality approach, " says Lebo, who is determined to keep the show's feel authentically African by making sure that all international productions feature South African performing in them.
It has eliminated many superfluous brands, and its remaining product line is getting high marks on quality and dependability.
Although Jobs was noted as harnessing high quality design to power the success of Apple's products, Starck says that this product has little to do with Apple.
Although China has been building domestic polysilicon manufacturing capacity, the local product is still lacking in terms of quality and many panel manufacturers such as Yingli Green Energy continue to rely on imports.
It is still the product spec leader in smartphones and tablets but competition has deep pockets and is getting better at the game of quality and timely new products.
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