Chinese Tech CEO Says Apple Is Outdated

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You know things are getting rough for Apple when even China thinks Apple's style is outdated and product design is obsolete. What is the world coming to when China doesn't want to copy your products anymore because they are outdated and obsolete?

Jia is chief executive and chairman of Chinese conglomerate LeEco (formerly LeTV), which is best known for being the "Netflix of China," but has a product range that includes smartphones, televisions, mountain bikes and, most recently, electric vehicles. Last week LeEco launched the self-driving, smart LeSEE supercar, designed to rival Tesla's Model X. In the latest evolution of the "LeEco ecosystem," Jia hopes to sell content, including movies, TV shows and music to LeSEE drivers.
 
This is the same CEO that's backing that bogus electric car company Faraday Future here in the states...
 
Probably a guy that has literally documented all of Apple's IP. When you send your manufacturing overseas, expect them to inherit it. No company that sends their tech overseas should expect less. It would an insult if they didn't adopt it.

In short, he should know if Apple's technology is outdated. They don't need Apple now. They have everything from Apple that they needed as stepping stones. To be exact the next article I read from MSNBC was that Apple might be shutout of China in the next 5 years.
 
thejokker said:
An excellent reason to stop off-shoring production and keeping manufacturing in America. Foreign countries like China are not as politically stable as the U.S.
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Nor are they friendly. China's main output is industrial/commercial/defense espionage. This is who they are. They are copy cats and good ones at that, but China doesn't have an original thought for anything.
 
Well their entire society is based on replicating everything perfectly... Their writing, their culture, the way they used to do things (redoing something 1000 of times until it's perfect...) So they could basically launch the nex t iPhone and it would be better than the last one OR better than the one designed by Apple themselves....
 
Silverbolth said:
Well their entire society is based on replicating everything perfectly... Their writing, their culture, the way they used to do things (redoing something 1000 of times until it's perfect...) So they could basically launch the nex t iPhone and it would be better than the last one OR better than the one designed by Apple themselves....
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It's called Shanzai and it goes directly to their copycat culture.
 
Apples style never felt anything extra ordinary, the colors maybe. everything is a bland design, there are no aerodynamic lines hah. everything is thin a flat.
 
His Netflix of China might even have Netflix shows.....before Netflix. Ya, now Netflix is outdated.
 
hardboner said:
actually they suck at replicating things. Far from perfect. Their copycat shit breaks down fast and usually has poor fit and finish
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They can copy the stuff easily and perfectly, but they won't. Cause it's expensive. So their products would end up costing just as much as what they copied. At which point, who is going to buy the fake over the real one? So they introduce shortcuts and lower manufacturing to bring the cost down. This of course leads to poorly built products, but also lower prices.
 
And guess what?

Apple fans don't care!

Apple could sell them a 486 with a hamster-wheel PSU and so long as it had a metal unibody and glossy Apple logo, it would fly off the shelves.
 
hardboner said:
actually they suck at replicating things. Far from perfect. Their copycat shit breaks down fast and usually has poor fit and finish
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Actually, they're freaking great when comes the time to reverse engineer a product... it's just that they want to sell the product at a lower price than the original, so they'll find the *best* way to replicate the product (look wise) at a lower manufacturing price...
I worked at a company that used to send prototype in china for mass producing.... the question they ALWAYS asked first was ; "How much do you want to pay for the finish product". If we said 150.00$US, they did it for that price, if we said 25.00$US they did it too...they never said "It's not enough, we can't do it for that price...."
They'll always find a way to produce and end up with a final product... BUT the quality goes hand in hand with the amount of money you want to pay for it...
 
Methadras said:
Nor are they friendly. China's main output is industrial/commercial/defense espionage. This is who they are. They are copy cats and good ones at that, but China doesn't have an original thought for anything.
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This is limited thinking. The US was the China of the World from 1850-1910. We were copy cats and vigorously trying to develop manufacture here. England decided it wasn't interested in retaining manufacture, so we took it. Primarily we used immigration to absorb their skilled people. We became the innovation center because we made the stuff. If you're not making the stuff, it becomes harder and harder to justify keeping in the game to design & innovate the stuff and not just become a brand name. Where goes manufacture is eventually where goes innovation. They will have the 'original' thoughts because there will be no one left here to do it and probably in the not too distant future.
 
Methadras said:
Nor are they friendly. China's main output is industrial/commercial/defense espionage. This is who they are. They are copy cats and good ones at that, but China doesn't have an original thought for anything.
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Yeah, the lack the proper genes...

Get real, breh. Copying one another is what we call progress. I can't believe the lengths people go to blame the chinese for what everyone's been doing since the dawn of man, if not earlier.
 
Riiiiight. *making jerkoff motion with hand*

Its like the talking heads on TV that keep telling Donald Trump that he needs to be more presidential and change his ways, like some random schmuck is going to tell the guy winning that his strategy doesn't work.

Apple is making money had over fist, they don't need to change a thing.
 
thejokker said:
An excellent reason to stop off-shoring production and keeping manufacturing in America. Foreign countries like China are not as politically stable as the U.S.
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Politically stable is not the phrase I would use for the US when all of it's candidates are nutjobs or psychopaths.
 
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