I want a D3 copy...

Marco Tedaldi wrote:
>
> Chris Malcolm wrote:
> > John Turco <jtur DeleteThis @concentric.net> wrote:
> >> Chris Malcolm wrote:
> >>> My point was that at the time when Soichiro Honda visited the Isle of
> >>> Man TT and bought a few British motorcycles he was widely regarded by
> >>> the British motorcycle press and industry as a sleazy Japanese
> >>> knock-off artist who hadn't the slightest clue about the really
> >>> serious craftmanship and expertise required to make anything as good
> >>> as a Big British Motorcycle.
> >
> >> Hello, Chris:
> >
> >> That says far more about the racial prejudices of the British press,
> >> than it does of Soichiro Honda's integrity, in my opinion.
> >
> > Exactly my point. I was likening the ignorant prejudices of the
> > technically knowledgeable British motorycling press them then to the
> > similarly ignorant prejudices of some posters here today.
> >
> You are right... to a certain point. Honda did not copy the beritish
> bike nor did he try to sell them as such. They looked at existing
> technologies, corrected some issues and sold an even better product.
> Tell me a product where chinese manufacturers did this in the last few
> years.
> So if the chinese engineers are buying some cameras and build own ones
> under their own name and these cameras are good and cheap, i'll be the
> first one to buy such a thing.
> but what the chinese manufacturers are doing in the last few years is
> producing just cheap copies. And that's not what I want. And when
> someone wants a chinese D3 it would be a copy, and not a genuinely
> designed new camera. It would be a D3 with the quality of a lomo at
> halve the price of a D3.
>
> Marco


Hello, Marco:

Precisely! If these Chinese entrepreneurs want respect and riches, then,
they'd better go about actually >earning< those things...just as their
Japanese counterparts did, once upon a time.


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur DeleteThis @concentric.net>
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Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:

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> Unfortunately, we can't avoid the made in China badge... Almost everything
> is being made in China, today... My mother's new HP laptop is made to the
> last screw in China, and a very good one it is, too... I bought a very good
> computer speakers set, with a subwoofer, only 22 euros, and I keep my
> fingers crossed... Made in China, obviously... My nytech camera
> www.nytech.de is also made in China, like everything sold by Lidl...
> Although the sensor is Sony and the lens is Pentax. The only exception is my
> Canon printer, its inks and paper which are all made in Japan.


Hello, Tzortzakakis:

In reality, over 80% of current notebook computers are made in "free"
China (i.e., Taiwan).


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur.RemoveThis@concentric.net>
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:36:57 -0600, John Turco <jtur DeleteThis @concentric.net>
wrote in <47B65A59.43295E24 DeleteThis @concentric.net>:

>Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
>
><edited for brevity>
>
>> Unfortunately, we can't avoid the made in China badge... Almost everything
>> is being made in China, today... My mother's new HP laptop is made to the
>> last screw in China, and a very good one it is, too... I bought a very good
>> computer speakers set, with a subwoofer, only 22 euros, and I keep my
>> fingers crossed... Made in China, obviously... My nytech camera
>> www.nytech.de is also made in China, like everything sold by Lidl...
>> Although the sensor is Sony and the lens is Pentax. The only exception is my
>> Canon printer, its inks and paper which are all made in Japan.

>In reality, over 80% of current notebook computers are made in "free"
>China (i.e., Taiwan).

<http://www.news.com/Report-China-to-take-notebook-crown/2100-1005_3-5061346.html?tag=nw.3>

Report: China to take notebook crown

August 7, 2003

China is expected to displace Taiwan as the world's largest
manufacturer of notebook PCs by the end of the year, according to IMS
Research.

The market research firm, based in the U.K., reports that notebook PC
production has exploded there over the past year. Most major foreign
notebook PC makers have either completed or are starting to relocate
factories to China.

The Chinese plants, owned mainly by Taiwanese companies, will churn
out 20 million units this year, more than 50 percent of this year’s
total worldwide volume, according to IMS Research.

Some basic notebook design work will follow the move to China, but
research and development operations will remain at company
headquarters, said Ann Bird, China market analyst at IMS Research.
These headquarters are mainly in Taiwan, she said.

China's largest notebook PC production base is in Suzhou, a province
in eastern China. The annual output of PCs there is close to 10
million units--about a quarter of the world's total, according to a
report from news agency Xinhua.

The nine leading companies in Taiwan have established plants in
Suzhou. These companies include Uniwell Computer, Acer and Mitac
International.

--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)
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John Navas wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:36:57 -0600, John Turco <jtur.TakeThisOut@concentric.net>
> wrote in <47B65A59.43295E24.TakeThisOut@concentric.net>:
>
> >Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
> >
> ><edited for brevity>
> >
> >> Unfortunately, we can't avoid the made in China badge... Almost everything
> >> is being made in China, today... My mother's new HP laptop is made to the
> >> last screw in China, and a very good one it is, too... I bought a very good
> >> computer speakers set, with a subwoofer, only 22 euros, and I keep my
> >> fingers crossed... Made in China, obviously... My nytech camera
> >> www.nytech.de is also made in China, like everything sold by Lidl...
> >> Although the sensor is Sony and the lens is Pentax. The only exception is my
> >> Canon printer, its inks and paper which are all made in Japan.
>
> >In reality, over 80% of current notebook computers are made in "free"
> >China (i.e., Taiwan).
>
> <http://www.news.com/Report-China-to-take-notebook-crown/2100-1005_3-5061346.html?tag=nw.3>
>
> Report: China to take notebook crown
>
> August 7, 2003
>
> China is expected to displace Taiwan as the world's largest
> manufacturer of notebook PCs by the end of the year, according to IMS
> Research.
>
> The market research firm, based in the U.K., reports that notebook PC
> production has exploded there over the past year. Most major foreign
> notebook PC makers have either completed or are starting to relocate
> factories to China.
>
> The Chinese plants, owned mainly by Taiwanese companies, will churn
> out 20 million units this year, more than 50 percent of this year’s
> total worldwide volume, according to IMS Research.

<edited for brevity>

Hello, John:

Hence, the Taiwanese notebook makers are simply going to continue the
larger trend of exploiting all that abundant, Commie slave labor, in
mainland China.


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur.TakeThisOut@concentric.net>
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