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by rasz
15 days ago
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>Chinese manufacturing has been notorious for quietly undermining the quality of the product to improve their margins over time Famously Gemtek Technology (https://www.gemteks.com/en/about/about), Apples small obscure modem OEM at the time, when presented with contract to manufacture 1999 AirPort Wifi cards made first batch of complete duds because factory owner saw picofarad smd caps and decided it will be more profitable to for him to GLUE tiny plastic rectangles instead, after all picofarad is like nothing so nobody will tell the difference. https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273798... |
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