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The Chinese are so quick in copying, but slow in perfecting, and perhaps impossible to invent on their own.
Anyway, KBDfans is a top-tier company amidst all other indie makers and small groups - the 5° case is a real game changer, although heavily inspired by LeandreN's FJELL (which is in turns heavily inspired by Apple keyboard M0110).
Oh wait, Hammer is probably from Taiwan, i.e. Chinese - and Hammer case's unique design still has an irreplaceable position in MK community.
Interesting. I don't know if you've watched this, but it explains a lot:
The video claims that the concept of IP is mostly foreign (as perhaps it should be) to people who live in countries outside of the capitalist mainstream. Imagine if all hardware was seen as opensource, just like we prefer our software. Welcome to Shenzhen.
I think instead of "capitalism" (which China in indeed extreme capitalist, e.g. in Shenzhen there is virtually no limit what people can do with huge wealth because law enforcers become flexible for them, compared to in the US, with the CIA and such), it is more about different concepts of how the society should be governed: by people or by written law.
In the West, the wealthy people get everything because they can pour huge amount of money to have the best lawyers to tell people they are correct in every way; in the east, the wealthy people get everything because they know the high officials in power, the enforcers and interpreters of flexible laws. In the West, the politicians help the riches to hack the system; in the east, it is more like the politicians are the system itself.
"That is clever, let me also do something in the same / a similar way" - perhaps that was how people used to think in a
non-lawyers-plagued, more primitive society when survival and basic functioning of everything, e.g. farming and machines are still of utmost priority and the constitutional rights and vested interests are protected mostly by force and by people instead of by law.
In China, what is more important is probably not the law, but what the police (and the governments) allows you to do or not; and usually enforcement of law is flexible different from people to people who enforce it. This is actually quite typical Asian, until they evolve from personal negotiations to dealing with each other via legal procedures.