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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 11:33:48 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   Inventing and selling basic devices isn't really viable anymore. If the Chinese see something online that might sell well, they're going to copy it. Companies like Apple avoid the issue by having a software ecosystem and making it hard to access that ecosystem on non-Apple devices. Others, like GoPro, develop a strong brand. Apple has a strong brand too, obviously, but they have the vendor lock-in on top of that.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 11:42:14 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      Making stuff hard to imitate is basically the clue to having a viable product in the 21st century. Patents are too hard to defend against a swarm of Chinese copycats.

      We are still doing product development in the old fashioned way here in the West. Months and years of planning, funding rounds, marketing, etc. Meanwhile, in Shenzen, China, they can get a product from prototype to mass manufacture almost instantaneously, and sell it on Alibaba.