This could go on for another 10 years.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    The only hope for consumers is that Chinese manufacturers pick up the slack, but guess which country western governments ABSOLUTELY don’t want you buying products from?

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      15 hours ago

      How much would it matter?
      Even if they are Chinese manufacturers, they would want to go with the high-price buyer, which is larger companies.
      And if they do keep some reserve for people, out of some long-term-thought or maybe just some morals, wouldn’t they just prefer selling inside China?

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        7 hours ago

        Chinese manufacturers would fall outside of the “circlejerk” economy between hardware manufacturers and AI companies, and as such I think AI companies would be less willing to buy from Chinese manufacturers, particularly with Trumpian anti-China policies.

        Even if they didn’t, Chinese companies still seem to very much be old-school capitalism - they actually still concentrate on making and selling a product instead of just moving capital around with the customer being an obstacle and excuse.