[rasz]

>GoPro operations guy once, and asked how you can get the chinese ripoffs at $40, that looked the same as their $400 "real" deal. He said that they literally get chips from scrapyards

Chinese consumer electronics companies simply do not put huge margins on stuff. Here a great example, a $45 AlienTek DP100 100W USB-C micro lab power supply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6LG7iP2GQ something like this would cost $500 with Digilent logo.

>speced to work 6 months on avg not 6 years

while original gopros suffer above average defect rates and cant record at 4K without baking itself to death/random shutdowns.