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And yet somehow the result has been a vast acceleration in the rate of improvement of robotic vacuums. It isn't evident that we are in the right here.
by _ea1k 4y ago
And yet somehow the result has been a vast acceleration in the rate of improvement of robotic vacuums. It isn't evident that we are in the right here.
- davemp 4y agoThe result is also all of the innovative product ideas that never see the light of day because two weeks after launch there’d be a Chinese knock off on the market for half the price making it impossible to recoup R&D. That’s a big reason behind the push to SaaS and server based solutions.
- andrekandre 4y ago> there’d be a Chinese knock off on the market for half the price cheaper, faster, better... sounds like... innovation?
- davemp 4y agoWhat about copying someone else’s design, making minor improvements (often regressions due to incomplete RE), and having a lower cost basis sounds like innovation to you?
- andrekandre 4y agowell, i guess it depends... there are cases where something is totally copied 1-1 then maybe costs cuts are in labor, or they are in quality in the case of worse quality, wouldn't the market just filter out such inferior products via competition? same with labor practices and bad pr from that. additionally, if the 'minor improvements' are what people want (sometimes as a trade-off to quality) then thats what the market has signaled it prefers... if the originating company doesn't meet that preference or demand, why should some admittedly state-provided protection (some might say monopoly) of intellectual property be able to protect them from competitors who will?