Fortune, Mar 1, 2015

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(1) Jen Wieczner, This Is the Only Commodity to Fall More Than Oil.
fortune.com/2015/02/19/this-is-the-only-commodity-to-fall-more-than-oil/

Note: “The price of lean hogs—a term referring to butchered pigs regardless of paunch—has sunk 51.3% since the end of June. The drop follows record-high prices this past summer, after a disease called the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus whacked supplies."

What Is a Lean Hog?  WiseGEEK, undated
www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-lean-hog.htm
("Lean hog is a technical designation used in the commodities trading of pork products, most frequently through the mercantile exchange in Chicago. The term refers to the majority of edible meat harvested from a hog carcass. Pork bellies, which are used primarily to produce bacon, are traded and priced as a separate commodity")

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(2) Scott Cendrowski 孙卓, Enter the Dragon. Almost overnight China’s phonemakers came to dominate their market. Now they’re looking farther afield--with claws out.
fortune.com/china-smartphone-domination/

Quote:

"In 2011 just two of the top 10 smartphone makers in China were Chinese, according to market researcher Canalys: Huawei and Lenovo. In 2014 eight of the top 10 were Chinese; Samsung and Apple were the only foreign holdouts. In just three years the cast of leaders completely reshuffled as China’s smartphone market more than quadrupled. Today six of the top 10 smartphone brands worldwide are Chinese, according to Strategy Analytics, even though many of them sell only in China—proof of the enormousness of that market relative to the rest of the world."

"For years Chinese phonemakers served in the shadows as manufacturers for Nokia and others. Everything changed after Google introduced Android in 2008. The inexpensive and customizable mobile operating system, an answer to Apple’s status-quo–shattering iPhone, made it possible for any electronics company with some savvy to develop a worthy alternative. In no time Chinese companies shifted their strategies from churning out white-label devices for others to building brands for themselves.

Note:
(a) "The company [OnePlus] was founded by 40-year-old Pete Lau and 25-year-old Carl Pei 卡尔·裴, who decamped from a top Chinese phonemaker, Oppo, just four subway stops down the road. * * * Pei, who is the company’s director of global efforts [says of sale volume of its $300 smartphnes:] 'Now we’re trending toward 1 million.'"
(i) OnePlus  一加科技 (based in Shenzhen; 2013- ; logo: 1+)  Wikipedia
(ii) founder 劉作虎 (湖北人，浙江大学毕业)  

I have no idea why he chose "Lau."   

(b) "In 2012, China passed the US as the world’s largest smartphone market. Since then its number of annual phone shipments has doubled, to about 400 million"

Of course "shipment" is not "export" or "manufactured." The word "shipment" only means 400 million smartphones were bought in China; it does not even duration (in a year?). But the figure was what Gartner predicted in January 2014 that Chinese would buy in the entire 2014. That report, as well as the real number (which should have been released at the beginning of 2015), Gartner has put behind the pay wall.

(c) "Meizu was the first Chinese phonemaker to emerge as a brand in its own right. Based in Zhuhai * * * Meizu is led by Jack Wong, a high school dropout and onetime factory worker"
(i) Meizu Technology Co, Ltd  魅族科技有限公司 (2003- )
(ii) Jack Wong 黄章，真名黄秀章 (1976- ; 出生于广东梅州市)