> Surely we HN users must be able to think of something we could ship to China cheaply! Well, first, I assume by ‘we’ you mean the US, since not all HN users a

> Surely we HN users must be able to think of something we could ship to China cheaply! Well, first, I assume by ‘we’ you mean the US, since not all HN users are from the US. That being said, we do ship to China, but those products don’t require an empty airplane. It’s the software, especially the open source ones, that China needs. Hardware-wise, China may be ahead of the rest of the world for various reasons, but software-wise, it’s still lagging behind. And this is not just a Chinese market issue. Remember, even Japan until recently had a majority of users who used IE!