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I think they could see the writing on the wall for playback of physical media. The outlook could not support their margins while maintaining their desired best in class product philosophy. Instead of the long spiral downward of cheapening their designs to fit into a commodity class mentality, they are now simply bowing out having done an admirable job of owning their market. Rare to see such a corporate display of integrity and pride in work done these days.

It popped up in Tidal Masters. Sure... why not?

Yes - cloning high ticket, high volume items is big business in China. A guy I know runs a seismic monitoring equipment company - quite a big one - and he was trying to set up a sales office in China. His agent showed him the problems in doing this by taking him to a large nondescript building. In one single room (of many) there were 200 people with racks of gear disassembling program memory, DSP algorithms, FPGA code and so forth in Western products so they could be cloned. But we're not talking anything remotely on the scale industrial-level cloning activities. This one that has ripped off the Stax amp is likely two or three people in a small facility. And they have not got product ready to ship - they are asking for pre-orders to generate some cash to keep going. Which is why a threat might stand a chance of having an effect.

Cloning anything and everything that can potentially turn a profit is big business there, and sometimes all they need is the idea to clone almost instantly. https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/

Yes - indeed it was. But there is implicit copyright in a work of creation, such as an electronic design - the design does not need to be registered to be owned. And that agreement to uphold implicit copyright internationally is called the Berne Convention. One of the signatories to the Berne Convention is China. In fact it is more difficult to find a country who is not a signatory. So it is entirely possible to pursue the plagiarising assholes though international agreements that have been in place for over a century (China signed up to this is 1992). Initially to send them a Cease and Desist order.

Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along.

Giving this sacd a spin with the L3000 leatherheads, yup good..

Pulled pork sandwich and fries

While working for Cisco in the late 90's or early 00's, Huawei came out with a competing router that looked just like the Cisco router, had exactly the same command interface, same features, etc. The funniest thing was that the documentation was, with the exception of "Cisco Systems" being replaced by "Huawei" was word to word exactly the same. This included copying the typos.

It must be a counterfeit Hawaii from China. Huawei.

I don’t think any patents will hold it meaning in China at all. There are counterfeit brands (similar quality or cheap and ripoff quality) both. There are economy police forces that would go inspect and seize these counterfeit goods if your business is being sued for inspection. However, most of the time, these guys are bribed away and turning their eyes. The big guys in government will not care enough. Unless it is something that could stir a huge conflict against other countries such as military technologies and so on....I think even war planes and some are simply copy cat from the super power countries. Here in the US, we are very strict and regulated on these issues, but many other countries beside China, they do appreciate (counterfeit goods) and will pay for it at cheaper price. However, there are some of these funky business as of late, had been infecting Amazon by a lot. Soon, Amazon will face a challenge. A Smartphone company XiaoMi is basically a copy cat of Apple IPhone, the founder is billionaire and the company is healthy+strong over there. Then we have Huawaii which does similar things but on a much lesser scale and can export into the US...etc...etc..you get the idea. Taobao and Aliexpress is basically a copycat of Amazon but based off of counterfeit goods to the rest of the world and Chinese labor forces. Jack Ma is also made into a billionaire by...”copy cat”....there is no boundaries. Just visit China and stroll around their markets, you will see huge differences in materials goods, patented and copy rights stuff, which hold no meaning over there. one of the latest example of counterfeit goods is those Hollywood big hit movies. They got released 1 week in China before the US. Because in the past, the lesson learned is that the Americans rather enjoy new movies in theater, and they respect copy rights, together with punishments if infringement happened. However, when shown in the US first, the Chinese somehow grab the copy as soon as possible, and Official (or so they branded it) DVD/Blu-ray will be filling the street in China before the movies even hit theaters, which results in a huge losses.

Definitely a bit odd, and sad. I assume they will keep their other markets (phones, etc.) in China domestic market (?)...... As good as they were, maybe they NEEDED the volume they didn't have to best maintain their operating model. They certainly packed a lot into a decent-priced device.

Wow. Wonder what the full story is? Great products, great brand equity and they're just ... folding the tent. It doesn't make sense.

Sucks. They deliberately announced it on the second so it wouldn't be construed as an April Fools joke.

you're all set I'll send out a PM once I get the numbers back for the pots and that340 boards

I dunno, looks like the services of a certain retired circular hole cutter tech might be needed...

^ That (interface) was because they also copied the Cisco IOS (including comments and bugs). When I worked for Tellabs, during an optical tradeshow, we caught two of their engineers attempting to disassemble and photograph a piece of our equipment on the show floor after hours.

RIP Oppo? https://www.oppodigital.com/farewell.aspx