[skydhash]

> Almost all of my favorite companies are in Shenzhen presently.

All my favorite devices were designed/engineered either in Japan or in the USA. I'd take good engineering over cheap manufacturing every time. And we could do with lower number of devices. While they are probably made in the same factory, I'd love a focus on quality instead of price.

[mardifoufs]

Following your own logic, you'd never have had any Japanese engineering if everyone thought the same thing about japan in the 60s and 70s. It used to be considered the place where cheap stuff and knock offs were made, but it evolved from there. Same seems to be happening to China right now