They think
and they’re obviously right you toffee-nosed shitheads (wait this is from The Economist right?)
Chinese brands are cheap and good. Brazilians don’t have too much money and the chinese brands are way cheaper and you get much more value, so of course everyone likes them, lol
I wonder if any of the people writing these sorts of articles ever have a realisation that people prefer affordable and effective goods, not overpriced garbage. Or maybe they’re too insulated from the average person to ever understand that concept.
Every new American tech product seems to try to be the new Apple, with some shitty locked down ecosystem and expensive subscriptions for the dumbest details.
Meanwhile Chinese tech just does the job and isn’t too expensive. They also got ton of niche stuff.
China is building for the consumer, USA is telling the consumer what they want.
It’s the landlord mindset of the American mind trying to apply rent-seeking tactics to commodified goods.
Every new American tech product seems to try to be the new Apple
And none of them seem to understand that Apple got big because they made consumer friendly stuff that worked and was an alternative to the bloated and locked down stuff from their competition, then they started doing all the shitty stuff once they got big enough. They just try to go straight for the cult of personality for their products.
they think China has better tech than America
Kinda obvious when there’s a “Made in China” label on most products sold in America.
the only downside i have experienced from basically exclusively buying chinese tech stuff and goods is that sometimes they mark it up for westerners (which is based when its not happening to me)
even chinese customer support is way better than american. they’re less willing to give u a complete refund for being a dickhead but they will actually try to help u in reasonable ways
i literally dont know what benefits you could possibly get from american alternatives
Although the US held just 12% of the world’s total semiconductor manufacturing capacity in 2021, US-based companies held approximately 46.3 percent of the total semiconductor market share. This seeming discrepancy can be explained by both the dollar value of imported US semiconductors, outlined above, and the fact that many US-based companies own and operate semiconductor fabrication plants in other countries, such as Japan. In such cases, the manufacturing capacity is added to that country’s capacity rather than the capacity of the US, but the profits typically count as part of the US economy.
Link for this?
OP is consistently a liberal
We don’t think that, we know that lmao. It’s been multiple years since I purchased anything made in the west, specially in the audio department, I use IEMs on my PC and a TWS on my phone and they are all Chinese, not just because they are Chinese, but because they are genuinely great while being extremely cheap. I paid the equivalent of 3 or 4 dollars for my current IEM iirc and this is the best one I’ve ever had so far.
