On almost all of the Noob SubCs that I have seen and the two that I've have purchased, the 6 O'clock dial marker is crooked. Why in the world can Noob not fix this? Seems like it would not be that hard to get the stick hour markers straight. Bugs the hell out of me.
KBH beat me to it. Noob don't make dials and if they get 10,000 (Yes with a watch like the subc that would be the minimum they buy at once) dials they will use and hope for better next time. You still bought didn't you? That's all that matters to the maker.
Really?
Being a Chinese educated in the west I find that statement a little hard to swallow. Contrary to what most westerners believe, Chinese had some of the most exquisite art pieces in the world and they can do some pretty darn perfect things. Have you ever seen the paintings done on a grain of rice, or the painstakingly detailed ivory carvings? And that was all done before any modern equipment was available? Even with modern day equipment that's something extremely difficult to mimic.
Why do you think the Chinese qc is so poor sometimes? Did you think they're actually that incapable?
When customers demand the lowest possible price and the lowest bidder for suppliers this is what you get. I can't imagine westerners willing to work in a factory sweating all day for 12-15 hrs a day without air conditioning and low pay.
So seriously, if you want perfect go get a gen.
It has nothing to do with the ability to make fine art or what the customer wants it has everything to do with the Chinese obsession for saving every last cent in introduction costs. I have a lot of product made in China and if specify component A and component B is .05 of a cent cheaper and 50% crappier they will use it and be totally incapable of understanding why I get pissed off.
QC is the same deal, a decision is not based on whether it will effect the longevity or usability of a product such as in the west the decision is based one will the customer buy it. Little or no thought is given to the fact it may be the last thing the customer buys because until recently most Chinese firms were manufactures and suppliers only (of export goods). They made stuff for other companies carrying that branding not their own. It simply wasn't their problem. Ask any big western company how much oversight they need to ensure stuff is made to spec by a Chinese supplier and you will find that most have inspectors prowling the floor continuously. It's not bad, it's not wrong it's just the Chinese way, make it and get it out the door. There is little or no consumer protection in the home market so they have never needed to worry at home and as I said the concept of encouraging customer loyalty is a forign one. There are after all a lot of Chinese so even if you only sell a person a product once it's no big deal. There are (were) no super corporations selling millions of items for the him market, Chinese manufacture has traditionally been much smaller companies than in the west so compared to the market size it just didn't matter.
This is still evident in Chinese companies that sell direct to the west with their own branding and it is biting them in the bum. DJI (the makers of the Phantom drone) are a good example. Great product but plagued by both QC and manufacturing/component quality issues. Hell, the second last firmware update the things falling out of the sky because the update was released before any real testing was done. Another example from them was massive amount of prop controllers failing because they were the wrong unit. That's what the supplier sent so that's what was used.
The same thig happened with Cherry cars. The basic design is good for a cheapie but the build quality is utter shit. Back home no one can complain, well they can but it won't do them any good. Here that didn't work. It's not so much QC it's the use of the cheapest components possible. As long as it runs as it leaves the showroom that's good enough apparently. A biggie was the fact the exhaust is lagged in asbestos. They were told during product approval to meet ADRs (Australian Design Rules) that that would not do but the alturnitive was far more expensive so they simply wrapped it in a thin aluminium shield (think thick kitchen foil) and hoped no one would notice. Well, they did and the recall cost them dearly both in terms of dollars and in market share due to bad publicity (something else that isn't an issue back home, consumer affairs don't get much of a run in the press, it looks bad).
No one is saying that Chinese companies
can't produce world class goods after all look at iPhones etc, the issue is that (for the most part) they don't
want to.
You just don´t question him
