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"People in emerging markets are going to want to have access to the same features that expensive smartphones offer. They see the iphone ads and they want the lifestyle that comes with it. So even if they can’t buy it from Nokia/Microsoft, iphone, or some Android phone - they’re going to get a smartphone with the SAME features from a shanzai smartphone. Sure shanzai smartphones are cheaply made and it may fall apart in 1 year, but guess what - that’s more of an excuse to buy a new one."
Tricia Wang on the emergent shanzai smartphone culture. She defines shanzai as “affordably hacked together outside of the dominant” system and can be applied to any dominant system- the early days of punk, hip hop, linux, apache, could all be considered shanzai. At their roots, these phones, these genres of music, these forms of software development that seem like hacks are the seedlings of disruption. And Tricia is developing a wonderful nose for spotting them all over the globe. (via brycedotvc)
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