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Software.
China is so ahead on physical manufacturing and speed of deployment that it's easy to forget that they're bad at software.
Granted, everyone is bad at software, except the US, and even then only arguably. But with China, the mismatch between increasingly higher tech manufacturing and deficits in software is incredibly obvious.
In theory, the need to get everything past the CCP to get approval should allow for greater proliferation of unifying standards. In practice, software is such a kludge and such a mess in practice that the kind of outside-the-box innovative thinking and creative problem solving America kind of selects for by design is quite lacking.
I hear good things about their AI labs right now, but in terms of what normal, everyday people engage with, I think their software is terrible.
That, and their website UI is designed around entirely different principles than the rest of the world, principles I find completely atrocious. The fact that it works for them somehow kind of blows my mind a bit.
Can you elaborate a bit? Because at the current year of the lord almost every user software that is not open source is utter shit or in the process of turning to shit fast. The software on the chinese devices is as crappy as the one on the rest.
And to me it seems that they are quite capable of writing industrial software for their own needs.
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