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Perhaps outdated but when I was hunting a Loongson laptop (just recently deprecated by OpenBSD) I got the vibe most Chinese nationals wanted x86 and pirated Windows to use software like anyone else.

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Pretty much. It is an uphill battle for them in terms of mind share. It doesn't help that their top end chips are still a few years behind most new x86 chips on general work loads, and they are WAY behind on more specific things like encryption/decryption stuff due to lack of dedicated ASIC's for them.

That sadly matches the conclusion I reached after years of following that processor arch online. It just doesn't seem anyone is willing to do the hard work of maintaining something different. Other than Apple and that has its own issues...

Every Chinese company dreams of becoming Apple, yet none does the hard work, or knows what to begin with.

Even current apple is not the apple that gained the big initial momentum that got it where it is. No revolutionary products or services for decade+, just milking user base and heavily investing into marketing around supposed privacy. You can take ie their phone and compare it with 5 year old model and struggle to find differences (which is valid for most but not all manufacturers at this point).

Market is simply too mature and saturated and moving phones into foldable phablets/tablets is an evolution at best. Also it started and was perfected elsewhere so nothing novel or shocking and 0 WOW factor.

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