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by moonchrome 1404 days ago
Thing is a customer is willing to pay disproportionately more for a "reliable" country of origin, brand, whatever - so you can afford to throw in better components/QC on top of higher labor cost etc.

Many things are this way - you don't pay premium price for a budget brand even if they end up performing the same as premium brand.

Also you don't outsource production to China to get better quality, you outsource to cut cost - that always leads to worse products down the line.

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> always leads to worse products down the line.

Counter point: Apple, they seems to be doing just fine.

China is not a magical place where there is boundless supply of cheap labor and bad product quality. Execution matters.