Subj : Re: How far I've come... To : anthk From : Moondog Date : Fri Jul 07 2023 11:09:00 Re: Re: How far I've come... By: anthk to All on Thu Jul 06 2023 08:59 am > On 2023-01-28, Arelor 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." > > > > > > -- > > gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken > > > > --- > > þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL > 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. --- þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net .