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First a brief history of how potato became a part of Indian cuisine in order to understand the names it acquiredThe potato is not native to India. It was a wild crop that grew in the forests of Peru/Bolivia and was domesticated by the indigenous people there over 7,000 years agoThe Spaniards and the Portuguese sailors introduced this crop to EuropeThe Peruvians called it ‘Papa‘. The Spaniards called sweet potato ‘Batata.’ To distinguish between the two, they renamed ‘Papa’ as “Patata.” Probable reason could be that papa meant father/pope in Spanish. That is how the word patata was bornThe Portuguese introduced it in Goa the 17th century and it spread in western India. It was widely known as Batata.The British introduced it in Bengal in the 19th century and it was called ‘Potato’ by them. The locals called it ‘Aloo‘ because it was a tuber, just like yam which they were familiar with. Yam or Kanda (కంద) in Telugu. The Bengali word Aloo is from Sanskrit. So, aloo is a word of Indian origin. Incidentally, Arabs call it Batata.Since the potato came from Bengal to coastal Andhra Pradesh, it was known as Bangala Dumpa - or the tuber that came from BengalIn Telangana, it was called ‘alugadda’ since it came from the north where it was called ‘aloo‘ but added the Telugu suffix ‘gadda’The Tamil/Kannada influence is the reason why the potato is called urla gadda in the adjoining Telugu speaking areas.Anyway, what’s in a name? A potato, by any other name, would be no less tasty.

Why do big tech companies need Foxconn to do their hardware production?They don’t specifically need Foxconn (a trading name of Taiwan’s Hon Hai), but at the moment, most of them do need contract manufacturers who have factories in China. The main ones include Foxconn, Compal, Quanta, Wistron, Pegatron and Inventec.There are several reasons why we got into this position.First, it made sense to open factories in China because the country was expanding rapidly (with government assistance) and there was lots of cheap, quite well educated labor as millions of young workers moved from rural areas to industrial areas such as Shenzen.Assembling iPhones in a Foxconn factoryTaiwanese companies like Acer (Wistron) and Asus (Pegatron) were ideally placed to exploit this opportunity. They spoke Chinese and were close to mainland China, they had already opened factories in China, and they were already selling products to the capitalist, developed countries. They could bridge the two worlds. They just had to spin off their factory operations to make products for other people. For example, Pegatron used to make products just for Asus. Now it makes them for Asus, Apple, Microsoft and others.Second, the whole manufacturing world was transformed by the introduction of containerized shipping. It used to be really expensive to transport products over long distances, and it was really expensive to load and unload ships. It became really cheap to pack 40-foot or 80-foot containers in a factory, load them onto huge container ships, then deliver them to warehouses anywhere in the world, without them being packed or unpacked at the docks. (With expensive electronics products, this process also risked “pilferage”, ie theft.)Containerization meant you could build factories anywhere in the world, and it made transportation costs much less important than wage costs. These factories could have been built in India, Russia, Brazil, Vietnam, Mexico or other countries with cheap labor. However, China won most of the business for reasons given above.Third, the source of “added value” shifted as the technology industries matured.You can reduce the tech business to three phases: design and innovation; manufacturing; and advertising and marketing.In the early days, the ability to build reliable machines and deliver them to nearby customers was the main source of added value. This led to dominant players in many countries, such as IBM and DEC in the USA, ICL in the UK, Siemens and Nixdorf in Germany, Olivetti in Italy, Fujitsu and Toshiba in Japan — you get the idea.Once cheap contract manufacturing and reliable cheap transportation were available, the “value added” graph was inverted from an n shape to a u shape. Now all the value came at the beginning (design and innovation) and at the end (advertising and marketing) of the process, not in the middle (manufacturing).As a result, the tech industry shipped its manufacturing jobs to China (including Foxconn) and shifted its focus to the “value added” parts at both ends.From this point of view, it’s useful to contrast Apple and Dell.Dell did really well by exploiting its highly-automated build-to-order manufacturing capabilities. It shipped millions of PCs from factories in the USA, Ireland etc, which were relatively close to their customers. It spent relatively little on design and advertising: you could just order online. Dell’s business was booming in the 1990s when Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy.Apple made its comeback by focusing on design and innovation — translucent colored iMacs etc — and then on massive advertising campaigns and huge marketing operations. It even opened thousands of shops, which Dell-type online ordering was supposed to have made obsolete. In other words, where Dell’s business strategy was n-shaped, Apple’s was u-shaped.Apple picked Foxconn as its main manufacturing partner for the iPhone, probably because it was the cheapest, and that made Foxconn a giant. However, Apple also uses superior producers, including Compal and Pegatron.Will the situation change if robots replace people, further reducing the cost of labor?Probably not. First, companies like Foxconn have economies of scale that mean they will profit more from using robots than companies with factories in other locations, including the USA. Second, China now has a massive advantage in the supply chain. Giant factories depend on hundreds of smaller suppliers who provide not just parts and sub-assemblies but also have valuable skills and experience at installing and maintaining production lines, as well as world-wide shipping connections.Just as it was easier to start a factory in England during the industrial revolution, or a web company in today’s Silicon Valley, it’s now easier to start high-tech manufacturing in certain parts of China. Everything you need is readily available in one place. You can’t easily replicate that, and it could take decades to do it.

There are various theories to the origin of the word Albanian. You will also have to differentiate here the word “Albanian” and “Shqiptar”, the first being a term addressing Albanians by non-Albanians, and the second one how Albanians call themselves.In case of the former, mentioning of Albanians goes back to 2nd century BC, where Albanians were mentioned with the toponym Arbon or Arbo by Polybius. Later, Ptolemy notes Albanopolis, Illyrian city in Roman provice of Macedon. Finally, to correlate to your question, Arbanon, or Albanon, originally, was a region in the mountainous area to the west of Lake Ohrid and the upper valley of the river Shkumbin, in the 11th century AD. (you can check all this in Wikipedia, where you can find reference sources for all this)To clarify further, your question confuses territory inhabited by Albanians in the Balkans region, and the Caucasian Albania, the name of the historical region of the eastern Caucasus, that existed on the territory of present-day republic of Azerbaijan. These were are two entirely different historical countries with entirely different ethnic groups, and the latter seized to exist.In case you’re referring to Albanians from Balkans, there a numerous archeological, linguistical and historical academic studies (Robert Elsie, others) that successfully prove that Albanian language originates from Illyrian, and even has a connection with the Pelasgian culture, due to a wide number of toponyms and city names, which are well documented, starting from ancient names of cities and all the way to Classic Greek writings. To this day, most of the writing which are considered “barbaric” in relation to Classical Greek can be well understood by modern Albanian speakers, as the roots of a lot of the words are Albanian.In summary, Albanians that reside in various countries in Balkans today are autochthonous, meaning they did not arrive from Caucasus, but are the original inhabitants of Balkans, descendants of Illyrians, whose tribes lived in the entire Adriatic coast, well inside territories that are today Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Greece.I hope this helps.