| If China were a company’s R&D department, they would be Microsoft’s. What do I mean? Well, does Microsoft ever come up with anything new anymore? No, they just go around buying up everybody else’s good ideas or blatantly ripping them off. Sure, a long time ago Microsoft was ground-breaking, but now they’re just kind of hanging on. That’s pretty much how China has been for a while now. They invented fireworks, pasta, and arguably a lot of other things we take for granted today. But look at their popular culture these days. Almost everything that’s really cool is kind of a rip off of cooler stuff from Japan or Korea or sometimes even America (who probably ripped anything cool off from Japan and Korea, anyway). But China is also kind of like Dell’s old R&D department. Historically, Dell has let everybody else spend the money on R&D, and then they’ve found a way to do the same basic thing, only a little bit cheaper. That’s been great for consumers because it’s helped push everybody to lower their prices, thus making computing power more affordable for everybody. |
| China seems to be trying to help lower prices in the whole MP3 player/phone market, which is great, if you ask me. The picture above is a picture of Meizu’s new Apple iPhone clone called MiniOne. Sure, it’s a blatant rip-off of the iPhone, but it looks pretty cool and has a much nicer price. And anything that features screenshots using Chinese characters makes my mouth water. It’s due to ship by the end of the year. I wonder if they’ll follow Microsoft in that area, too, and totally miss their launch date, or go with Dell’s “just in time” delivery model. Really, it doesn’t matter to me one way or the other; I’m broke. |
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