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Comment Re: About time BKK put their foot down! (Score 1) 19

That rhymes well in Chinese...

BBK is actually sells much more phones outside of China than inside. For this reason, they spent last 5 moving as much manufacturing out of China as they can.

Dian Yongpin himself has never set a foot inside China for more than a decade. I had an ex-coworker who used to work for him back in days Duan was making DVD players.

Comment Re: Patent Minefield (Score 1) 145

I have an aircon manufacturer client from Pakistan.

For more than a decade, they had not a single "dumb" motor powered aircon in their lineup.

What they don't want to advertise is that both models advertised as "inverter," and not are both electronically driven 3 phase PMSMs.

If even people in a places like Pakistan can make inverter driven aircons as cheap as single phase ones, why can't yours do so, do it better?

Comment Re:Resolution (Score 1) 32

I am pretty sure the resolution is so lousy is because Apple had a very long drama selecting a supplier, trying to copy the tech from that supplier, failing, being sued, surviving trade war, and finally finding a barely usable substitute.

I also believe they did put a lot of premium on the supplier not being Chinese, and thus safe from trade war escalation.

Comment More close to reality (Score 1) 32

Guys, take a look at this: https://www.emagin.com/product...

It's already used in a number of HMDs, and eMagin is the one, and only American company on the market with 1k+ nits product. The helmet on F35 is using displays from that company exactly because of that high bridgtness.

High brightness is super important, because even 1k nit HMDs look very unimpressive in daylight, and anything below 1k nit is impossible to see at all.

Comment Not what I knew (Score 4, Interesting) 32

I know myself the person who was working on the previous prototype of Apple's glasses.

Their previous iteration used an inorganic LED screen from a Beijing University spinoff. 5000 nits on a single chip was the thing, and efficiency as far as it can go with LEDs.

Apple did not want to play fair. They poached their engineers, and tried to replicate the technology themselves.

Then Beijing Uni comes into the pictures, and threatens them with a lawsuit, claiming that Apple "tainted" itself with their proprietary IP/trade secrets by hiring their engineers, and that they will blast them out of China if they proceed. And thus, they had to abandon that tech, despite its promise. But the company in question was still wrecked by the exodus of top talent.

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