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Re:Goodbye Amazon by Spooky23 on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:39PM (#14224304)
Sometimes factories run extra shifts of knockoff product to avoid paying royalties.

I had this happen once at work with SFPs. They came through a reseller and were labeled and boxed as one OEM, but were detected as being from another.

Re:Goodbye Amazon by dbg31415 on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:46PM (#14224764)
At some point I really do want to visit the black markets in China -- that video of the guy building his own iPhone as so cool. Everything we get comes all plastic wrapped and obfuscated, it's cool to remember it's all still just circuit boards and recognizable components -- just much smaller than we were used to snapping together in the 80s and 90s.
Re:Goodbye Amazon by Spooky23 on Saturday April 29, 2017 @08:32AM (#14226271)
Same here. I'd love to have an excuse to visit that giant mall where they have like 20k manufacturers displaying their stuff.