There's a very special can of brainworms in germany where every once in a while everybody jerks off about some midsized company in the middle of nowhere who make some extremely specialized product that the whole world needs extremely well. Think like, I dunno, Zeiss lenses but usually way more niche. Like you have Karl Müller & Söhne and it's about 15 guys somewhere in eastern germany who basically produce the worlds absolute best ball-bearings which NASA, some militaries and weird hobbyist shell out top dollars for.
There is so many people convinced this will somehow save us as if the problem in china is they're all way too dumb to make a good lense and not just that nobody wants to pay for it and also they get super buttmad when one of these midsized companies sells out production to china as those dastardly chinese don't give too much of a shit about patent law and will just copy it. Which is a correct assessment, really, but somehow it's chinas fault instead of some ghoul cashing out on a respected brand name and destroying the company.
China makes a ton of incredibly specialized shit. If you want a custom done hub-motor, you go to China to get it done. If you want some really specialized lens, China is also a good bet. China is already creeping up the really specialized boutique shit. Like just yesterday a big YT channel wanted to turn an old motorcycle into an ebike, so they called up a factory in China and gave them the specs and they made them a custom-done motor for that exact motorcycle. Or if you need to get a custom battery management IC or motor controller that only you are ever going to use you can often just hit up the factory and they don't even charge that much for custom orders a lot of the time.
What's really dumb about the whole "China makes cheap knockoffs" stereotype is that yeah, of course they do, but they also make all the good shit too. Not China's fault the distributor in America specified to the Chinese factory to cut as many corners as possible so the product can be sold to consoomers at walmart for 3 dollars. It's all confirmation bias because they never look at the origin label on the shit that doesn't break.
There's a very special can of brainworms in germany where every once in a while everybody jerks off about some midsized company in the middle of nowhere who make some extremely specialized product that the whole world needs extremely well. Think like, I dunno, Zeiss lenses but usually way more niche. Like you have Karl Müller & Söhne and it's about 15 guys somewhere in eastern germany who basically produce the worlds absolute best ball-bearings which NASA, some militaries and weird hobbyist shell out top dollars for.
There is so many people convinced this will somehow save us as if the problem in china is they're all way too dumb to make a good lense and not just that nobody wants to pay for it and also they get super buttmad when one of these midsized companies sells out production to china as those dastardly chinese don't give too much of a shit about patent law and will just copy it. Which is a correct assessment, really, but somehow it's chinas fault instead of some ghoul cashing out on a respected brand name and destroying the company.
China makes a ton of incredibly specialized shit. If you want a custom done hub-motor, you go to China to get it done. If you want some really specialized lens, China is also a good bet. China is already creeping up the really specialized boutique shit. Like just yesterday a big YT channel wanted to turn an old motorcycle into an ebike, so they called up a factory in China and gave them the specs and they made them a custom-done motor for that exact motorcycle. Or if you need to get a custom battery management IC or motor controller that only you are ever going to use you can often just hit up the factory and they don't even charge that much for custom orders a lot of the time.
What's really dumb about the whole "China makes cheap knockoffs" stereotype is that yeah, of course they do, but they also make all the good shit too. Not China's fault the distributor in America specified to the Chinese factory to cut as many corners as possible so the product can be sold to consoomers at walmart for 3 dollars. It's all confirmation bias because they never look at the origin label on the shit that doesn't break.
Not everyone needs over engineered ball bearings, so we increase our manufacturing by outsourcing to—
Oh no
But But But .... They allready make much of the Zeiss Lenses in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7585l95VM
.... And all the other Glass stuff also ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrF8UN_HxUU ...
Lmao :deng-smile: