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tokenanalyst

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Randomuser said:
Japan and Indians are more similar in mentality than one would think. Might be because of all that religious crap. Unlike China which has spent time and time again toning down all that mystic stuff with buddhism etc, Japan never really had that kinda stuff.
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I think they are different.
Japanese right wingers are delusional.
Modi Indian ultra nationalists are pretty ignorant and for some reason proud.
 
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Sardaukar20 said:
Cantonese doesn't even belong to Hong Kong. It is named after Canton (Guangzhou) or Guangdong.

These Hong Cuckers might as well claim English as their language and move to the UK to start their careers as dishwashers.
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But like mentioned before they will still be seen as a Chinese no matter what. Back to Olivia Chow she states she is from HK yet that dosent stop people from calling a her a Chinese agent.
 
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Lethe said:
MiniDisc dates from 1993, at least five years before portable MP3 players began to arrive on the scene around 1998/99. Sony's ATRAC was part of the first wave of consumer lossy digital audio compression formats, debuting almost simultaneously with Dolby Digital AC-3 and MP3. The latter was initially constrained to the PC platform owing to high computational load.

The gap between MiniDisc and the arrival of portable MP3 players is roughly the same as that between PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2, the 100MHz Intel Pentium and the 800Mhz Intel Pentium III, or Doom and Half-Life. MiniDisc debuted in an era of rapid change and was rapidly overtaken by further developments, but that doesn't mean that it was a mistake at the time.
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Yes, but I was specifically talking about a 2001 ATRAC3 player. By then the writing was clearly on the wall. CDs didn’t really take off for 10 years or so, but MD never even got close to that kind of window before it was shut out.
plawolf said:
Guarding their IP wasn’t the problem, no one would get anywhere by simply gifting IP they spent years and vast amounts of resources to develop to the competition to use for free (some caveats apply, for example Chinese SoEs share tech with each other to improve competition and avoid waste from duplicating R&D costs, but that doesn’t mean BYD is just going to give Ford all their tech secrets either).

The problem with Japanese tech innovation wasn’t the IP protection, it was the pricing strategy, which again went back to their tiny market mindset.

Because their domestic market is tiny, they need massive mark ups on each unit sold to recoup costs and make profits. The fundamental strategic error Japanese industry made was that they never got out of that mindset even when they were selling to a global market. So their cutting edge products were always priced too high for widespread adoption, which was one of the key reasons their western competitors were so easily and consistently able to win the format race, because they were priced more competitively and so captured the lion share of the market share.

When faced with competition, the default response from the Japanese was to compete on quality, which only exacerbated the problem as it made their products even more expensive and niche.
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They also simply made some terrible business choices and lacked the ability to pivot from them. Plasma over LCD, even though they were the originators of LCD manufacturing. Japanese companies also decided it was better to further refine CRT computer monitors which gave Korean companies the opening to destroy them in that industry. Hydrogen over EVs even when the Prius was the first successful mass market hybrid and in another life Japan was the top battery manufacturing country. Hydrogen had an obvious massive distribution issue that is still not solved.
 
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