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dukeboy_318 said
Let me clarify, it’s not that the product itself is junk, it’s the QC process. I deal with QC daily and with companies all over the globe, in 60 plus countries, those 3 countries have the absolute worst QC protocols of all. And it’s not a single supplier from those countries, it’s generally all of them. I think it’s a cultural thing. For those three countries, it’s widely accepted to have a large defect rate because labor and material is so much cheaper than having to pay for the expensive QC processes.

It is and itsn't.
Arguably some of the best 'smart phones' in the world are made in red China. The QC practices depend on the company back in wherever their engineering is, and goes right through product engineeing and manufacturing. We had it good when the majority of our raw materials and designs were overkill to begin with - most of those countries never had that, and of course we've lost most of what we had.