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US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers (foxbusiness.com)
hackingbear quotes Dow Jones Newswire: Chinese technology companies have long had a reputation of being copycats of Western peers, but U.S. companies have recently begun to return the favor, said a partner at prominent venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz... China's internet titans such as Tencent Holdings Ltd. are influencing U.S. startups and majors alike, and many Chinese models are being replicated in the U.S., said Connie Chan, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture firm. LimeBike, a startup at San Mateo, Calif., adapted China's dockless bike-sharing model, first rolled out by Beijing-based Ofo Inc. and Beijing Mobike Technology Co., for U.S. consumers... Also, Apple Inc. recently added payment services to its iMessage chat service, taking a page from Tencent's playbook. "I love this reversal of what 'China copycat' can mean," she said. "It no longer just means a Chinese company copying the States, it can mean a U.S. company copying China."
And they're both common sense ideas with zero evidence that they were copied from the Chinese!
Also, Apple Inc. recently added payment services to its iMessage chat service, taking a page from Tencent's playbook.
A number of messaging services in the US have had this feature for many years. Facebook's Messenger is one example. If you want to get pedantic, a more accurate headline is "Apple copies Facebook Messenger's payment feature".
Having a software feature in common, or offering a similar kind of rental service, is nothing like the kind of copying that the Chinese government run industries have been doing, which is more akin to reverse engineering a physical product in order to manufacture it themselves.
Better known as 318230.
Go look up witte fietsen aka "white bikes".
Good lord - what's with all the shameless propaganda lately on Slashdot trying to sell the ideas that India and China are great and wonderful innovators in technology, finance or industry?
LimeBike, a startup at San Mateo, Calif., adapted China's dockless bike-sharing model, first rolled out by Beijing-based Ofo Inc. and Beijing Mobike Technology Co., for U.S. consumers...
I, for one, have never docked a bike. If this is what passes for Chinese innovation, then we can safely say they still have no idea how to innovate since those heady days of two fucking millennia ago when they were actually doing new stuff. Last time something like this came up I went to wikipedia to look at a list of Chinese inventions and guess what? Half of them are outright bullshit, and the other half are fucking old.
China has a culture of hammering down protruding nails that retards creativity. What laid the groundwork for America to become an industrial power was its cottage industry. We knew how to make things, because nobody would stop you from doing it. We had a real can-do attitude, and we did. There's a lot more to the story, but it rapidly gets ultrapolitical and I've had that argument already. You can't do anything big in China without the blessing of the government. Of course, that's fairly true everywhere, but it's extra-true there.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Just after WWII Japan made things cheap and they where made fun of that they kopied everything, but made lousy quality.
It is almost the same. Th difference is that the reason things are made so bad is because we, as customers want it cheap,
They are able to make higher quality. They already do and don't you think theat a few of the almost 1.4 billion people in China are able to come up with ideas on how to do new things?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The Chinese are starting to have real skin in the game, and so they're now in the position we were in in the 19th century. You can continue to play the pirate on a lot of IP issues or you can have other industrial states recognize your IP. You can't have both. If the US hadn't changed, the British and Germans would have repaid us by having government staff engineers regularly bulk shipping American patent applications back to London and Berlin, and we'd have been poorer for it.
DJI is a much better example. They pretty much invented the whole "consumer drone" niche and now are the dominant player there. All completely from scratch.