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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by ahartmetz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:46PM (#50406903)
On the other hand, catching up is usually much faster than doing something for the first time. China is catching up fast. I think the cheating / dishonesty gives Westerners the wrong idea - Chinese cheating is like doping at the Olympics: if you want to win, you have to be among the best and cheat.
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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by mmooss on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:01PM (#50407531)
> catching up is usually much faster than doing something for the first time

Yes, absolutely. You can see many places have followed that path; you can skip the R&D and just use mature solutions - South Korea and Taiwan, for example.

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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by ahartmetz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:14PM (#50408136)
I also mean stuff like stealthily reducing quality until the customer notices and such things. It seems to be more common in B2B than in B2C.
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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by RussianBot9580 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:29PM (#50410183)
That's what Americans want to buy: barely functional cruft to sell at Walmart. China also makes plenty of innovative quality products. The US bans those. Cars are one example.
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Re:I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West by mmooss on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:41PM (#50416399)
> I also mean stuff like stealthily reducing quality until the customer notices and such things.

You're attributing that to Chinese business? Isn't that what enshittification is, an American capitalist vision?

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