What is Founded?

A founding year is when the company was established, and it is a rough proxy for experience rather than a quality score. An older company has usually survived more product cycles, price swings and component shortages, which tends to show up in parts availability and in how plainly it writes its warranty. Adorama dates back to 1974 and Acer to 1976, giving both very long track records in retail and computing. AGM Mobile is newer at 2008, aaawave reports 2000, and AKASO is the youngest of the group at 2013. Pair this with warranty length and returns, not on its own.