..... I find the stereotypes presented here fairly sinophobic.
..... I can't speak for a GPO, but it would be an easy choice for me to pick one of the others listed over a MIC Vortex Razor HD. Heck, I would have picked a Conquest HD/Monarch HG BEFORE the move to China. ....But no way would I pay a THOUSAND DOLLARS for a MIC Vortex Razor HD when I could get one of the others you mentioned for the same price! *eek*
..... Nobody can sell a $999.
China binocular.
The word is quickly spreading about the news with Vortex and China.
Jerry
Sinophobic??!!! ....... puh-leeaaase !!!!!! *smacks head rolls eyes smilie* |^|
Cultural considerations have been, and are still, valid considerations in business investments, though mostly outweighed by the almighty $.
The stereotypes mostly hold true
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* The Germans are efficient and meticulous (though dour and humourless!
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* The Japanese are quality focused and deeply proud of it (though their innovation sometimes delves into the bizzare - like companion robots!
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* The Americans are full of junk food and big and fat (consequently they give us large things - the Ford F150 is seen as a small runabout for the missus, a boy's toy is an F250, men's trucks begin with the F350, and real men drive a F650 - outfitted with an AR-15 semi-auto assault rifle, 50 caliber tactical weapon, and several 44 magnums!!
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* The British unionized themselves straight out of the industrial revolution with inefficiency (but still have the wonderfully anachronistic and slightly crackers! Royal Family .... ) 3
* And the Chinese are the greatest copiers and ripoff merchants in the world (stuff might be shoddy, but it's quick and cheap) :eek!:
The Chinese have sucked a lot of the manufacturing capacity out of the world due to their Foreign Direct Investment laws and cheap labour, land, lax environmental laws and practices, and improving transport infrastructure. Due to these laws, many multinationals have set up manufacturing there, and the weight of that investment is moving the quality upstream, but the fundamental quality cultures of the Japanese and Germans is taking longer. Intellectual Property security is a greyer area - don't be surprised to see your confidential designs ripped off holus bolus and popping up on the Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean etc, markets, from where they will leak out unfettered into the world ....
Already, the Chinese are seeking to move upstream, some Joint Ventures offer leading edge automation, and they are more and more moving into the design and marketing and financing ends of the value chain. Innovation - wait and see ..... :t:
If the Kamakura sourced Vortex Razor HD APO's are now made in China, then can you bet that other Kamakura sourced designs are not too? A MIC Zeiss Conquest HD .... that explains a lot! With the lax labelling and sourcing laws, this is globalisation in action. All that's needed now is for the price of this class to drop to the $5-600 level where it belongs. B
Chosun :gh: