That being said, China does tend to have …various techniques for copying/stealing technology and passing it off as their own. Is it good or bad? Who knows. Their copy of the tech may end up being superior. Every company worth their salt tends to have R&D departments that take apart the competition’s hardware/software to see how it functions, though. GM did it with cheap Japanese cars to design the Saturn in the 1990s, and that was lauded.
Always a weird/interesting problem. Do we let a company have a monopoly so we have 20 years of Qualcomm cornering the market on wireless modems and no other vendor was legally able to pursue their own flavors easily so they were always inferior, if they existed at all? Do we let company B steal the idea of company A and become wildly more popular, destroying company A’s income because company B just did it better? Does the end result become more cutthroat markets? Or do things shake out organically? Patents seemed a good mechanism to allow a company a temporary edge in a domain, but then they quickly become abused (see: Qualcomm) so that company can ostensibly be a forever monopoly.
Edit: Oh, and Samsung copies iOS (and vice versa) with every phone release, so are they any better?
Apple/Google and others tried to do such illegal (in the US) non-competes earlier in this century: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-recruitment-emails-lawsuit-2014-1
That being said, China does tend to have …various techniques for copying/stealing technology and passing it off as their own. Is it good or bad? Who knows. Their copy of the tech may end up being superior. Every company worth their salt tends to have R&D departments that take apart the competition’s hardware/software to see how it functions, though. GM did it with cheap Japanese cars to design the Saturn in the 1990s, and that was lauded.
Always a weird/interesting problem. Do we let a company have a monopoly so we have 20 years of Qualcomm cornering the market on wireless modems and no other vendor was legally able to pursue their own flavors easily so they were always inferior, if they existed at all? Do we let company B steal the idea of company A and become wildly more popular, destroying company A’s income because company B just did it better? Does the end result become more cutthroat markets? Or do things shake out organically? Patents seemed a good mechanism to allow a company a temporary edge in a domain, but then they quickly become abused (see: Qualcomm) so that company can ostensibly be a forever monopoly.
Edit: Oh, and Samsung copies iOS (and vice versa) with every phone release, so are they any better?