>That will keep the market flooded with artificially cheap Sharp products -- mobile phones, solar panels, air conditioners, printers, microwave ovens Besides,

>That will keep the market flooded with artificially cheap Sharp products -- mobile phones, solar panels, air conditioners, printers, microwave ovens Besides, as a domestic consumer, sharp products are not necessarily cheaper than competitor's offers. Nor do they seem less innovative. This is all from a consumer perspective, but while the bailouts are real, the "stop innovating and flood the market with cheap products" strategy the author describes just isn't there. Sharp is keeping the same Kaizen-style innovation, slightly improving their models every year. It's debatable whether these small improvement warrant buying a new model, but the same could be said for all of their competitors as well.