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[โ€“] gruvn@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The days of people preferring the US to China are over. I would buy Chinese tech over US tech any day.

[โ€“] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

There is no phone thatโ€™s 100% Chinese or American tech anyway. Like RAM and storage comes from Korea, often the camera sensor from Japan, the lens is designed in Germany and the CPU is based on ARMโ€™s architecture designs and ARM is from the UK.