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I am very impressed by the engineering and design of my Bambu Labs printer. To me that outweighs a large number of stories about ballpoint pens. I've bought far
by atticora 3y ago
I am very impressed by the engineering and design of my Bambu Labs printer. To me that outweighs a large number of stories about ballpoint pens. I've bought far less impressive machines from China too of course. But from here it looks like there are many industries where their actual delivered capabilities are at least as good and sometimes better than anything I can buy elsewhere.
DJI is another such example, and both companies clearly reflect technology with military applications. China does have the capability for leading edge tech. Whether their social system exploits it effectively is another question.
- clwg 3y agoTim Cook also has a high opinion of China[0], and Apple products are extremely well manufactured, so your point stands. I just think that there may be some fundamental gaps in China's capabilities, or just systemic corruption/bureaucracy (like water-filled missiles) that aren't necessarily evident at this point in time and won't be known until China is really tested in a military type conflict. https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-is-number-1-reason-we-make-iphones-in-china-its-not-what-you-think.html https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-...
- obscurette 3y agoThere is more good engineers in China not because it's China, but because in China there is a lot of people who build things. Western world largely doesn't build things any more, especially Europe. And if you don't build, you don't have an environment where good engineers could evolve at all. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/