why do these companies in china keep cloning and reverse engineering other companies stuff? can they be creative and come up with their own things? god...lameeee
Well, here is one possibility. The Wii console (as well as other stuff you are referring too) may be a bit too expensive for an average person in China (and MANY other countries as well). So what are they to do? How will they manage to spend that much on Vista, or Mac-Book, or Wii, or iPhone, or even DVD movies and who knows what ever else? So, they have pirated movies, OS and other software, hardware and what not to meet their financial capabilities.
And don't even dream about MS and others being against this. They support it and its a fact! They KNOW that these people will NOT be able to buy their product legally so they provide them with the pirated version just to get them hooked. Think about MS for example. If they actually manage to destroy the pirated copies of Winblows what would all those people who cannot afford it do??? You guessed it, they would use Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu or any other ...buntu there is for free and so, if their country EVER develops enough they will never again switch back to paying for something they get for free and they got used to. Same deal everywhere else, just have to look harder to come up with an example...
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why do these companies in china keep cloning and reverse engineering other companies stuff? can they be creative and come up with their own things? god...lameeee
Well, here is one possibility. The Wii console (as well as other stuff you are referring too) may be a bit too expensive for an average person in China (and MANY other countries as well). So what are they to do? How will they manage to spend that much on Vista, or Mac-Book, or Wii, or iPhone, or even DVD movies and who knows what ever else?
So, they have pirated movies, OS and other software, hardware and what not to meet their financial capabilities.
And don't even dream about MS and others being against this. They support it and its a fact! They KNOW that these people will NOT be able to buy their product legally so they provide them with the pirated version just to get them hooked. Think about MS for example. If they actually manage to destroy the pirated copies of Winblows what would all those people who cannot afford it do??? You guessed it, they would use Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu or any other ...buntu there is for free and so, if their country EVER develops enough they will never again switch back to paying for something they get for free and they got used to. Same deal everywhere else, just have to look harder to come up with an example...
@pedja
actually, the real copies of Vista are about $5 ~ $10 dollars. they try to make them very low so people will actually buy them and not pirate them.