[Jong1]

While it's true looks don't guarantee quality, this, as someone who has sourced electronics from Asian factories, looks like a different problem - companies seeking to get the lowest price product by buying the kind of generic piece of kit normally sold by no-name brands.

It is surely possible to get very high quality products from outsourced manufacturing, as Apple and others prove, but by active involvement in all stages of development and manufacturing, not by buying a generic box, the design objectives for which are paper specs and absolute minimum cost.