Originally Posted by
moondog
One of my clients is an Airbus supplier with factories in France and China. Having visited both, I can assure you that they are nearly impossible to tell apart. Becoming an authorized Airbus/Boeing supplier is no easy task (requires a year+ certification process).
When I step into an Apples store in China at first I can't tell the ones in China and USA apart either. Until I started to talk with the staff and do some maintenance with my gadgets, that's when the night and day differences started to kick in (attitude, knowledge, professionalism, etc.)
Again, the problem with China is never the hardware, but the software (including human resources and its "working culture")