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Rikkitic: Are Chinese electronics products rubbish?
Galaxy S10
Garmin Fenix 5
jeffnz: I have to agree with Jpoe I think there is a certain amount of snobbery and its been going on for years. I recall the same comments on Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean products ,m granted some are junk and suitably priced so maybe its just our expectations and perceptions.
The examples have been given with Apple being the best one and how many would say that is junk!
mattwnz: Yes and no, just as you can get good and bad trademen, or good and bad businesses in NZ. Most electronic stuff is now made in china due to that being the only way companies can compete, including apple. But a rule I follow is only buy top brand products, so you have got their quaility control and technology behind it, but make sure it isn't a knockoff. Chinese brands can just be copies, and bad ones at that, and they may use old technology. See many cheap tablets being sold as an example..
Klipspringer: The answer depends on the ethnicity of the person reading the question.
iPad Pro 11" + iPhone XS + 2degrees 4tw!
These comments are my own and do not represent the opinions of 2degrees.
tdgeek:mattwnz: Yes and no, just as you can get good and bad trademen, or good and bad businesses in NZ. Most electronic stuff is now made in china due to that being the only way companies can compete, including apple. But a rule I follow is only buy top brand products, so you have got their quaility control and technology behind it, but make sure it isn't a knockoff. Chinese brands can just be copies, and bad ones at that, and they may use old technology. See many cheap tablets being sold as an example..
Actually they are up there with technology, unlike the past. In the past it was produce, produce, produce, but now they are as state of the art as anyone. I watched a doco a while back, a dude bought a copy of a top end golf club set, but an expert could not fault it. They can do it but there is a snobbery as mentioned, and a long standing reputation, but the quality and cost is there. A $9 jug at the Warehouse is up for sale, but you can buy a $189 jug as I bought recently, made in China. I will note that my wife is Chinese but that in no way biases my comments.
iPad Pro 11" + iPhone XS + 2degrees 4tw!
These comments are my own and do not represent the opinions of 2degrees.
tdgeek:sonyxperiageek:vexxxboy: bought 2 Ainol Tablets and after 2 years they are still going with no problems and would but the brand again without question, remember people said the same thing when Korean products came onto the market years ago.
You must have been one of the very lucky ones!
The reason why we are saying that the cheap stuff from China is bad is because we (and people) have literally experienced it is bad, not because of some rumor which is probably why people started saying the same thing about Korean products, which turned out to be not true I guess..
Actually the OP raised the thread about Chinese products in general, not cheap stuff from China.
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tdgeek:mattwnz: Yes and no, just as you can get good and bad trademen, or good and bad businesses in NZ. Most electronic stuff is now made in china due to that being the only way companies can compete, including apple. But a rule I follow is only buy top brand products, so you have got their quaility control and technology behind it, but make sure it isn't a knockoff. Chinese brands can just be copies, and bad ones at that, and they may use old technology. See many cheap tablets being sold as an example..
Actually they are up there with technology, unlike the past. In the past it was produce, produce, produce, but now they are as state of the art as anyone. I watched a doco a while back, a dude bought a copy of a top end golf club set, but an expert could not fault it. They can do it but there is a snobbery as mentioned, and a long standing reputation, but the quality and cost is there. A $9 jug at the Warehouse is up for sale, but you can buy a $189 jug as I bought recently, made in China. I will note that my wife is Chinese but that in no way biases my comments.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
mattwnz:tdgeek:mattwnz: Yes and no, just as you can get good and bad trademen, or good and bad businesses in NZ. Most electronic stuff is now made in china due to that being the only way companies can compete, including apple. But a rule I follow is only buy top brand products, so you have got their quaility control and technology behind it, but make sure it isn't a knockoff. Chinese brands can just be copies, and bad ones at that, and they may use old technology. See many cheap tablets being sold as an example..
Actually they are up there with technology, unlike the past. In the past it was produce, produce, produce, but now they are as state of the art as anyone. I watched a doco a while back, a dude bought a copy of a top end golf club set, but an expert could not fault it. They can do it but there is a snobbery as mentioned, and a long standing reputation, but the quality and cost is there. A $9 jug at the Warehouse is up for sale, but you can buy a $189 jug as I bought recently, made in China. I will note that my wife is Chinese but that in no way biases my comments.
It depends on the product. Their cars still aren't up to much, as they have purchased old designs and they are using old technology, and they have done a buy up of some of the brands that collapsed in the GFC. Some of their cars still use asbestos parts, which are banned in Oz, but allowed to be sold in NZ.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
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