What Tom MacWright thinks about China

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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1. 24 Jul 2026

   Our readingChinese consumer electronics tend to have better hardware than software.

   Their wordsFor Chinese-based consumer electronics like this, the hardware is usually a lot better than the software.

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