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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by triceratops on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:27AM (#32356542)
> quickly adding features not present in the original products. So it's a bit dangerous for American companies to sit on their heels

Why can't American companies study the Chinese products and do the same in turn?

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by vasachi on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:47AM (#32356885)
Do American companies manufacture anything in China? Yes. Do Chinese companies manufacture anything in USA? No.

So USA can only watch, while China can actually steal.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by triceratops on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:54AM (#32357014)
Do you need to see manufacturing processes to steal features? Is it not possible to reverse engineer a lot of it?

In the car industry, it's standard practice for every company to buy every model from every other company to study it.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by vasachi on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:57AM (#32357056)
It still is easier to copy, when you own manufactiring process.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by darthrupert on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:46AM (#32366866)
Perhaps because there has been nothing worth stealing there, and hence a culture of “stealing” never appeared. This might change of course, if/when China starts pumping out radically superior products.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by hungryhobo on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:40PM (#32360155)
They already do, see facebook/tik tok
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