Re: Re: How far I've come...
By: anthk to All on Thu Jul 06 2023 08:59 am
On 2023-01-28, Arelor <PALANT!Arelor@vert.synchro.net> wrote:
Re: How far I've come...
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Thu Jan 26 2023 08:47 pm
I don't think we're at the point where china makes cheap junk.
Pretty much this.
China used to be the laughting stock of the world, selling cheap junk whic good for barely anything. They aren't anymore.
So many foreigner countries helped the Chinesse build their industry to pr merchandise up to European and American standards that at some point they realized they could use that infrastructure and experience to produce it themselves. If an European clock manufacturer funds a clock factory in chi and sends an European foreman to oversee the production of watches, you wi find that factory produces watches under a Chinesse brand when the foreman not looking, using European standards and the toolchains the Europeans bou for them. It happens in Morocco all the time too.
A contruction engineer I know used to warn us in the early 2010s. "Chiness construction steel is no longer total junk. They are starting to show up w quality stuff."
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Japan was like that in the 60-70's. Cheap copies everywhere, and in the 80's they managed to surpass the West in a lot of places.
The Japanese mindset towards product development ran off a different schedule than Western mindset regarding time tables. A product may have been rejected in the US because it would 5 years to go from concept to finished project. A Japanese company would be thinking about longer term profitability and think
5 years not being that long to wait.
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