Removing light bulbs from retail market and enforcing mercury based CFLs - that was the latest act of such a cartel. Good the the paradigm shift to LED was quicker and different then they hoped. Now Philips, GE and OSRAM are a shadow of its former self, and little players in the LED industry. And Asian build LED are of a often of a higher quality and last longer. (well probably all LEDs are built there anyway, even the one from OSRAM that whats to sell that part of the company) And Asian built traditional light bulb are available and last longer than the older cartel build bulbs.
> And Asian build LED are of a often of a higher quality and last longer.
I'd like to believe that. I got burned by so many cheap Chinese LEDs (quite literally, too - some common failure modes of LED bulbs have them getting almost as hot as incandescent ones) that now I'm willing to pay premium to be sure the bulb won't turn into disco stroboscope after two days of usage.
