I think a lot of it is just to pander to people's ego's so that they can be seen to be keeping up with the Jones or beating them. The look at me and what I have, its better than you outlook.
Huawei
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Well, I have a smart kitchen hob and hood. The smart features doesn't have much use or practicality.
That being said, the only smart device that has significant practical usage and is truly transformative is my robot vaccum. It's my third robot vaccum in the past 9 years. Before the robot, our cleaning and mopping interval was once a week. Now, the robot is mopping daily while we are at work.
It is somewhat instructive that the top of the line kit vaccum cleaning robots comes from China these days (Roborock, Dreame, Deebot) and their product cycles are so astonishing that the likes of iRobot, Dyson could not keep pace.
They don't compete with the West, they compete with themselves. The Chinese tech ecosystem is hyper competitive, especially in the consumer space.
That being said, the only smart device that has significant practical usage and is truly transformative is my robot vaccum. It's my third robot vaccum in the past 9 years. Before the robot, our cleaning and mopping interval was once a week. Now, the robot is mopping daily while we are at work.
It is somewhat instructive that the top of the line kit vaccum cleaning robots comes from China these days (Roborock, Dreame, Deebot) and their product cycles are so astonishing that the likes of iRobot, Dyson could not keep pace.
They don't compete with the West, they compete with themselves. The Chinese tech ecosystem is hyper competitive, especially in the consumer space.
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I have a smart vacuum, it is the person who comes in curtsey of veterans affairs and also cleans everything else from bathroom to windows etc, and also provides conversation,
techknowledge still has a way to go to achieve that level of integration. One day it will happen?I am fairly confident we will see humaniod robots working in our homes, within my lifetime at least. A couple of the key challenges (batteries, MEM, chips, software.LLM) have been broken, which is why we are seeing Unitree (China), Boston Robotics (US/Korea/Hyundai), Tesla (US) and a host of other small startups (Figure AI), auto manufacturers investing and starting to deploy them.I have a smart vacuum, it is the person who comes in curtsey of veterans affairs and also cleans everything else from bathroom to windows etc, and also provides conversation,
Re on Huawei, I can provide a deeper insight. I've interviewed with them 10 years ago, and even for someone like me (Chinese descent, three generation removed, with full grasp of the language), I did not feel I could fit with some of their corporate culture.
I had friends who joined them at senior levels (directors). Mgmt teams from foreign countries are required to go to the Shenzhen HQ for on-boarding. For foreigners, it is the usual corporate spiel that you get at MNCs, and you knock off for sight seeing at the end of the day. For PRC citizens, there will be evening classes, conducted by the CCP. The content... well, you can guess (loyalty to Party and China stuff)
Does Huawei kit have spyware? It was my question to them. I think the answer is complicated. They (Huawei) are not stupid. They build very good devices and are affordable and being Chinese, they love making money more than politics. They are also aware of this perception and frankly, as an engineer, it is not easy to get away with such things on a large industrial scale without being detected. So yes, I am reasonable confident that they don't stick a rootkit into their ROM for most part. But what I am not confident is if the Party as them to do it, or asks them to provide confidential information of the clients, they will not say no. This, I think is what security agencies are worried about.
Re working there, even for us oversea born Chinese, we are subjected to double standards. No matter how hard we try to integrate, there's still some level of barrier at the social level. At the corporate level, there are subtle but material discrimination. Slightly better compensation for the same role, little or no need to justify for a more expensive hotel or business class during corperate travel etc.
I had friends who joined them at senior levels (directors). Mgmt teams from foreign countries are required to go to the Shenzhen HQ for on-boarding. For foreigners, it is the usual corporate spiel that you get at MNCs, and you knock off for sight seeing at the end of the day. For PRC citizens, there will be evening classes, conducted by the CCP. The content... well, you can guess (loyalty to Party and China stuff)
Does Huawei kit have spyware? It was my question to them. I think the answer is complicated. They (Huawei) are not stupid. They build very good devices and are affordable and being Chinese, they love making money more than politics. They are also aware of this perception and frankly, as an engineer, it is not easy to get away with such things on a large industrial scale without being detected. So yes, I am reasonable confident that they don't stick a rootkit into their ROM for most part. But what I am not confident is if the Party as them to do it, or asks them to provide confidential information of the clients, they will not say no. This, I think is what security agencies are worried about.
Re working there, even for us oversea born Chinese, we are subjected to double standards. No matter how hard we try to integrate, there's still some level of barrier at the social level. At the corporate level, there are subtle but material discrimination. Slightly better compensation for the same role, little or no need to justify for a more expensive hotel or business class during corperate travel etc.