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Comment by ahartmetz | Hacker News Reader

It is not a law of nature that Chinese products are lower quality (cf. electric cars) and I don't see why they would go for that. They can just bin what they produce like everyone else and sell their products for what they have been tested to deliver.

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But it is a near law that the first to market attempts will fully embraces the deeply engrained culture of 差不多, until market forces beat it out of the product line.

What is 差不多?

Basically means, “good enough” attitude.

Not "good enough", but rather "close enough". Very different connotations.

Close enough in which sense?

Chabuduo, basically "good enough" (but often not really). Classic essay on the topic:

https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...

Seems very similar to the Indian concept of 'Chalta Hai'!

That's no different from the Silicon Valley mindset of cashing out and jumping ship.

This has nothing to do about nationality, it has everything to do with building and running a brand new, highly technical, mass production facility.

And historical record of the lack of QA coming from Chinese manufacturing

China is a gigantic country where one in 6 humans live that either produce directly or indirectly, 70%+ of the world's goods.

It's quite difficult to make general statements at such a gargantuan scale encompassing every single sector.

China has an abundance of terrific QA in electronics and advanced technologies as much as it has an abundance of the opposite, just simply due to its sheer size.

Because we buy that stuff even without it. And if you make both good and crappy products, why sell the good stuff internationally?

The US did it when it was a bigger steel supplier, good steel was sold domestically, crappy steel was sold elsewhere. If you got crappy steel in Africa at the time you might have thought US steel was garbage with poor QA, but in reality US steel was great and they just shipped the crappy stuff because people still kept buying it.

>And historical record of the lack of QA coming from Chinese manufacturing

My endlessly excellent Chinese gear (Dahua cameras, XikeStor switches, etc) doesn't know what you're referring to.

The west absolutely loves enshitified products. So why not sell them what they want? If they wanted quality they would pay slightly more and do something about it.

It's pretty sad it used to not be so bad in the US. This is what happens when ethics and morals are removed from the culture.

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