the innovation thing is mostly projection bc china has innovations in tech, (but really a lot of consumer tech has slowed its innovation in the last few years so it's not like there hasn't been a lack of innovation in the west in that realm either.) Also they straight up whip our asses in trains and shit like that. China has tons of apps and stuff it produces for themselves but most of us in the west probably aren't gonna go out of our way to learn about it and find first hand accounts since it won't be in english.
They're mostly just salty bc someone is taking their IP and doing what they want with it and making money off it when the westerners are supposed to have the sole rights. Look at the illegal production of replicas of limited supply streetwear shoes and shit like that.
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edit: just want to add, from a communist perspective this makes sense. Why would you waste resources reinventing the wheel when we already have knowledge about something and you have to tap dance around it superficially making it different bc of copyright law.
people usually think of and get hung up on things like the Matebooks/macbooks or other tech thats similar but this is very much like FOSS, if you want to make something or improve on another design, you just make a fork from their work and start changing it to suit your needs.
Throughout the 90s videogame console manufacturers had to deal with having inferior d-pad designs bc Nintendo held a trademark on the floating plus sign design, that's why playstation has that weird thing where the buttons are kinda disconnected. Now, ubisoft holds a trademark on the nemesis system in the LotR games which is a neat system for dynamic story telling but theres been nothing else released apart from those two games bc devs know ubisoft will take them to court.
In my work, I suspect avid has a patent on stacking multiple audio tracks on one track to conserve space for their pro tools software bc its a genius bit of tech and i've never encountered it in another DAW.
anyway it holds us back but westerners aint ready for that yet.
right on, i don't really like dpads in general but i remember reading something about speed runners lamenting the patent bc of third part controller support and the other consoles. it was just one of the first examples to come to mind
the innovation thing is mostly projection bc china has innovations in tech, (but really a lot of consumer tech has slowed its innovation in the last few years so it's not like there hasn't been a lack of innovation in the west in that realm either.) Also they straight up whip our asses in trains and shit like that. China has tons of apps and stuff it produces for themselves but most of us in the west probably aren't gonna go out of our way to learn about it and find first hand accounts since it won't be in english.
They're mostly just salty bc someone is taking their IP and doing what they want with it and making money off it when the westerners are supposed to have the sole rights. Look at the illegal production of replicas of limited supply streetwear shoes and shit like that.
...
edit: just want to add, from a communist perspective this makes sense. Why would you waste resources reinventing the wheel when we already have knowledge about something and you have to tap dance around it superficially making it different bc of copyright law.
people usually think of and get hung up on things like the Matebooks/macbooks or other tech thats similar but this is very much like FOSS, if you want to make something or improve on another design, you just make a fork from their work and start changing it to suit your needs.
Throughout the 90s videogame console manufacturers had to deal with having inferior d-pad designs bc Nintendo held a trademark on the floating plus sign design, that's why playstation has that weird thing where the buttons are kinda disconnected. Now, ubisoft holds a trademark on the nemesis system in the LotR games which is a neat system for dynamic story telling but theres been nothing else released apart from those two games bc devs know ubisoft will take them to court.
In my work, I suspect avid has a patent on stacking multiple audio tracks on one track to conserve space for their pro tools software bc its a genius bit of tech and i've never encountered it in another DAW.
anyway it holds us back but westerners aint ready for that yet.
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right on, i don't really like dpads in general but i remember reading something about speed runners lamenting the patent bc of third part controller support and the other consoles. it was just one of the first examples to come to mind