Bunnie Huang on China's "Shanzai" Mash-Up Design Shops

saccade.com writes "Bunnie (of XBox hacking and Chumby fame) has written an insightful post about how a new phenomena emerging out of China called 'Shanzai' has impacted the electronics business there. A new class of innovators, they're going beyond merely copying western designs to producing electronic "mash-ups" to create new products. Bootstrapped on small amounts of capital, they range from shops of just a few people to a few hundred. They rapidly create new products, and use an "open source" style design community where design ideas and component lists are shared."

Comments

Re:MBA shortsightedness

[Hao Wu]

Once we achieve a truly global economy, then whom will the Chinese exploit or outsource their own jobs to? (They are already in parts of Africa...)

Soon the only jobs left on the planet will be: 1) prostitute 2) mercenary 3) bankers who own 1 and 2.

In some ways this is already the case. Think about your own job. Consider how it compares in those categories.

Re:Open source capitalism? o_O

[internettoughguy]

yea socialism mostly just means things like: public health care, welfare system, governmental Philanthropy in the arts and cultural affairs etc. many Americans had an irrational fear of it until Obama mentioned "change", it must have have been a keyword to snap them out of the commie hating hypnotism that Reaganomics put them under. what GP was talking about was Statism, which is kind of more like Microsoft or maybe apple than anyone (Microsoft are Nazis and apple are Stalinists).