&gt;That will keep the market flooded with artificially cheap Sharp products -- mobile phones, solar panels, air conditioners, printers, microwave ovens<p>Besides, as a domestic consumer, sharp products are not necessarily cheaper than competitor&#x27;s offers. Nor do they seem less innovative. This is all from a consumer perspective, but while the bailouts are real, the &quot;stop innovating and flood the market with cheap products&quot; strategy the author describes just isn&#x27;t there. Sharp is keeping the same Kaizen-style innovation, slightly improving their models every year. It&#x27;s debatable whether these small improvement warrant buying a new model, but the same could be said for all of their competitors as well.