elkhornsun wrote:
All companies copy the products of others. Go into a Home Depot and look at the power tools where all that changes is the color of the plastic for the housing. What irks me is when companies, USA and others, copy but do not bother to make any changes to what to me are glaring deficiencies.
I wish companies would look at the best features of competitors' products and make a hybrid that is best of breed or advances the state of the art but that does not happen.
With respect to China and to a lesser degree, Taiwan, the best products are often those made under the guidance of German companies and branded with the name of the German company. The US companies want to produce a widget as cheaply as possible and cut corners and we see the results at Wal-Mart and Home Depot. In China they refer to "German quality" as the best they can produce and "Japan quality" for middle tier products, and what we get in the US in general is bottom tier products. US company CEO's are rewarded 100% based on the stock price and so spend money on stock buybacks rather than on product development or better factorie or on worker training and this is unique to our country and it is easy to see the results.
With photographic products from China as with any other country one needs to read customer review to avoid shoddy products. Some like Smallrig are first class and others are trying to meet a price point and so make changes that reduce the performance or durability of the product.
you also make references to things you have manufactured. could we get a peek that them or will we just get crickets? show with pride.
i do have to question where you get your ideas and if true you should demonstrate with references? i have seen questionable manufacturing from all over the world. mostly from the wild east.
yes china is capable of producing quality. but they do seem to not demonstrate quality control. you can get things done if you stand over them and have true QA.
elkhornsun wrote:
All companies copy the products of others. Go into a Home Depot and look at the power tools where all that changes is the color of the plastic for the housing. What irks me is when companies, USA and others, copy but do not bother to make any changes to what to me are glaring deficiencies.
I wish companies would look at the best features of competitors' products and make a hybrid that is best of breed or advances the state of the art but that does not happen.
With respect to China and to a lesser degree, Taiwan, the best products are often those made under the guidance of German companies and branded with the name of the German company. The US companies want to produce a widget as cheaply as possible and cut corners and we see the results at Wal-Mart and Home Depot. In China they refer to "German quality" as the best they can produce and "Japan quality" for middle tier products, and what we get in the US in general is bottom tier products. US company CEO's are rewarded 100% based on the stock price and so spend money on stock buybacks rather than on product development or better factorie or on worker training and this is unique to our country and it is easy to see the results.
With photographic products from China as with any other country one needs to read customer review to avoid shoddy products. Some like Smallrig are first class and others are trying to meet a price point and so make changes that reduce the performance or durability of the product.
you also make references to things you have manufactured. could we get a peak that them or will we just get crickets?
i do have to question where you get your ideas and if true you should demonstrate with references? i have seen questionable manufacturing from all over the world. mostly from the wild east.
yes china is capable of producing quality. but they do seem to not demonstrate quality control. you can get things done if you stand over them and have true QA.
Jun 12, 2020 at 03:14 PM
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