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Edit: gburdell3's answer – that there was never a "real" version, and it was only ever a white label package – seems likely. -- My experience manufacturing in
by RickS 7y ago
Edit: gburdell3's answer – that there was never a "real" version, and it was only ever a white label package – seems likely.
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My experience manufacturing in China is that unless you're paying to have your own people on the ground overseeing operations, the factory will take every shortcut they can, and then immediately offer your product for sale to anybody that asks.
Once the molds/setup is done, it's trivial to print 150k instead of 100k, for example. If there's a counterfeit market that wants more of your product, then why not make money in two places?
Western ideas about IP, fairness, etc do not translate over there.