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You'll be wrong to think Creative is rebranding Sennheiser. Both of them are rebranding Foster Japan, the company that originally designed the earphone and still manufactures products for both companies. In fact, Foster Japan is manufacturing for many companies, including Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Apple, B&O, Audio-Technica, Creative, Sennheiser, Denon,... the list goes on.
Foster Japan is one of the largest OEM in the audio market (also under the the 'Fostex' brand)
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Hmmm...that's quite interesting. Senns are not made by Sennheiser. Surely they have to be highly designed by Sennheiser to make them such a favored earbud? I can understand a company having their product manufactured by another company, it happens all the time with nearly everything on the market. The iPhone and iPods aren't made by Apple, but they are precisely designed by them to their exacting details, which, to me, makes them exclusively an Apple product.
Thinking about how these earbuds are manufactured by a company other than the namesake really isn't a big deal and, to me, it doesn't take away from the quality of the product so long as the product is precisely designed to the namesake's details and specs. Creative doesn't make their own DAPs, Xfi cards or probably anything they sell. The Zune is made by Toshiba.
Really, what matters wouldn't be who makes and assembles the product, but who designs it and makes demands about its construction. In China, Meizu and Newsmy are about the only manufacturers of DAPs among all the many brands sold there. China is one of the world's largest producers of products throughout the world.
General Motors, Ford, Chrysler don't make all of the components that go into their vehicles. Most of those components are probably made in China..at least the electronics, anyway. But you can be assured those components are either designed to their specs or are approved for use having been designed by another company.
By the way, thanks for that delightful information.