Sorry that reply was a bit disjointed, it’s late and I can’t sleep. When I say, “All your data belongs to us”...the minute someone Else is storing your data, well, they have access to it. They probably even have rights to it, that I don’t know. I always keep my stuff off the cloud and backed up multiple times on separate media.
As for the laptops coming back from China with field engineers, yeah at that point we knew something was up. The worst part of it all is now China has ALL the software and hardware specs of what we sold them. Little did we know then but I suspected then was that they demanded it. I was right.
As for poor electronic parts quality. Think LCD TV’s crapping out years early. Bad components. South Korea was MAD about that. Samsung is BRUTAL to do work for but that’s another story for another time. I loved those guys. True warrior engineers.
Posting blind but in that same vein, all our big tech players that have either sold computer business to China or moved manufacturing there sold us down the river. Looking at you [I]’ve [B]een [M]oved.
All mainframes manufacted in China. They have all our tech.