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Re: It had to happen

> Those of us who's dismissed the Chinese as "good at putting things together and maybe copying things"

I remember the same thing used to said about the Japanese.

The eternal cycle

copy cheaply -> copy more efficiently -> out-innovate -> move production somewhere cheaper -> slowly become service based -> (not sure what's next, but I hope I don't live to see it) -> copy cheaply. -> ...