I have sometimes wondered if where a company is based forms their products.<p>While wikipedia now says that Subaru has their HQ in Tokyo, i could have sworn they were initially based on Japan&#x27;s northern island. And they seem to make some damn fine cars for winter roads.<p>Similarly both Korea and Finland gets damn cold during winter, and thus both Samsung and Nokia may have ignored capacitive touch screens since they don&#x27;t work too well with thick gloves.