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You can save a decent amount of money buying phones from brands that don't pay for their own R&D.
by yarg 8y ago
You can save a decent amount of money buying phones from brands that don't pay for their own R&D.
- lostmsu 8y agoWhy do they still sell on US soil? If they'd violated some patent, couldn't the original author get them banned?
- ergo14 8y agoThey could have just licensed the patents?
- james_in_the_uk 8y agoPatent litigation is complex and expensive. Also, often a lot of innovations are still patent pending due to the time it takes to get them registered.
- lostmsu 8y agoCan't you send some preliminary request based on pending patent? Also, Huawei and Xiaomu have been getting stronger in US market for years now. Expensive? We are talking about $1T company here. I can't imagine they are unable to afford litigation in their core business space. Basically, until somebody shows they violated some patent(s), these claimes about stolen tech are just a smere campaign. I don't understand why Huawei won't sue for it.
- tooltalk 8y agoI guess that's why there aren't too many Chinese made phones sold in the US.
- NotPaidToPost 8y agoHuawei is one of the largest R&D spenders in the world. Perhaps time to stop regurgitating nonsense?
- icelancer 8y agoLot of assumptions baked in here, but the major Chinese manufacturers are not the only ones doing that by a long shot, if that's your complaint. Additionally, the amount of cash Apple has on hand doesn't strike me as people plunging a major amount of their cash reserves into R&D. Much the opposite, actually.
- simonh 8y agoThe're expanding R&D very rapidly, quadrupling their spend on it over the last 6 years. For a mature company with an already well established product development operation that's pretty astounding. It's just that they became so immensely profitable so fast, their profits in absolute numbers still dwarf it.
- jdietrich 8y agoIt doesn't take much R&D to assemble a Qualcomm chipset, an LG display panel, a Sony imaging sensor and some Samsung memory into a phone, nor does it require any kind of reverse-engineering or industrial espionage. The latest flagship phones might use semi-custom components, but midrange handsets are just commodity parts.
- solarkraft 8y agoAnd tons of annoying ads.
- fernandotakai 8y agonot only that but... people trust chinese phones with a chinese OS? i mean, if they steal R&D, what are the chances they are also stealing your data?
- icelancer 8y ago>> people trust chinese phones with a chinese OS? No, wiping and installing stock Android is not that difficult, which is what I've done. Also, you drastically overestimate how interested Chinese manufacturers are in additional data [0] of random Americans. [0]: Considering that all smartphone companies steal your data in some form, I doubt Xiaomi is stealing significantly more, really.
- solarkraft 8y agoI meant the copiers generally spend less (probably much less than Samsung) on building a brand. Again more value for your money. I own a Pocophone F1, made by Xiaomi. It supposedly has one of the better UIs by default, but I found it pretty insufferable. Then again: The terrible software (with some ads) probably again subsidizes the device's price. No joke, the device with absolutely high-end specs cost me about 300€. The bootloader unlocking process is an insult (you have to have a Xiaomi account, verify your e-mail address, link it to your device, install their windows-only software, then wait 3 days [most of those steps took me multiple reboots to get figured out correctly]), but after that it is absolutely smooth to install the Android distribution of your choice - and there's a lot of it. I made sure not to do any banking on it before replacing the software, but afterwards it's probably more trustworthy than stock software of any non-chinese vendor. Of course if we're talking about stock chinese software ..... yeah, I wouldn't trust that, even on their 'global' versions, that aren't government guaranteed to spy on their users.