Who ever regretted training their replacement?
And why make China come here to steal your IP when you can just ship it to them directly?
Ask HN: Do US companies regret entering China?
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#22Depends on the business model. Some businesses cannot operate without outsourcing manufacturing to China. China also has more potential for growth than US and Europe combined.
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#23I know of a Swedish company that made a deal with a Chinese company, the Swedish company no longer exist.
Are you referring to SAAB?
If I recall correctly the company was not going to make it during the Great Recession, and no buyers wanted them. So the Chinese bought them but still couldn’t save them from their ultimate fate.
The Chinese owner tried to revive the brand a couple of years ago with an electric vehicle, but I guess that didn’t work out after all.
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#24Micron regrets it, essentially having a significant amount of their chip IP stolen by Chinese firms they were involved with one way or another.
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#25This will be a very interesting topic to talk about for me, I beg and hope that it will not be subject to "automatic" deranking.
The topic getting controversial, by far does not indicate it being unworthy of discussion.
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#26I know of a Swedish company that made a deal with a Chinese company, the Swedish company no longer exist.
Are you referring to SAAB? If I recall correctly the company was not going to make it during the Great Recession, and no buyers wanted them. So the Chinese bought them but still couldn’t save them from their ultimate fate. The Chinese owner tried to revive the brand a couple of years ago with an electric vehicle, but I guess that didn’t work out after all.
No I am referring to Cybaero.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you referring to SAAB? If I recall correctly the company was not going to make it during the Great Recession, and no buyers wanted them. So the Chinese bought them but still couldn’t save them from their ultimate fate. The Chinese owner tried to revive the brand a couple of years ago with an electric vehicle, but I guess that didn’t work out after all.
No I am referring to Cybaero.
seriously? a company making drones? I am wondering where dji got all its IPs, must be stealing from their partners on mars.
Re: Ask HN: Do US companies regret entering China?
#28In "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order", Kai-Fu Lee (former president of Google China) says many US companies don't give enough resources to their Chinese branch and that's why they fail. The Chinese internet ecosystem being so different than the Western one.
For example, Western users are used to refining their search query and clicking a single link among the results. Whereas Chinese users click most of the links and are used to them opening in different tabs.
However, it took months of convincing to get Google to create a new tab when clicking a link in search results.
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#29Micron regrets it, essentially having a significant amount of their chip IP stolen by Chinese firms they were involved with one way or another.
Please read more recent news before posting out of date info not useful for anyone. Micron is actively seeking more technical cooperation with Chinese companies completing in the NAND business. Source here [1].
[1] http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=3...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
No I am referring to Cybaero.
seriously? a company making drones? I am wondering where dji got all its IPs, must be stealing from their partners on mars.
Your condescending tone is not very nice. DJI is great but they make small drones flying on battery, this is a bit different with the missions being completely different.