They Told Them It Was Motorola It Must Be Good

Wicket figured Iguanians had better start getting out on the street in foreign countries and looking at the market. Products don’t sell themselves simply because they say Made in Iguania on them. As for Thais, they might buy one Iguana phone before realizing the software was awkward to use and then would forever go with Nokia. Hey, Wicket didn’t dislike his country, but facts were facts and he himself had bought at least two Iguana phones in Thailand. The second one had no switch to turn off the beeping of incoming messages. He remembered seeing a student in the elevator looking at her friend when her phone beeped. They thought it was ridiculous. So did Wicket. Or how about the car market in Japan? For just how many years did Iguanians try to sell cars there with the steering wheel on the left side in a nation where they drove on the other side of the road? Is it any wonder they made no inroads into the market? Once in a while Wicket would see one of these vehicles in Japan and only surmise as to just how dangerous it was. And to top it all off, every now and then the various industries that had somehow been discriminated against would ask for protection and money. In many cases the money would be paid by Japanese corporations earmarked for use in the modernization of Iguanian industries that would never be modernized. These were just some of the deals made at the end of World War II and after. Wicket figured everyone in Iguania knew what happened to money arranged to be given away for free. The executives and politicians must have had some nice days as they sold Iguania down the drain.