Oh, the profits of reverse engineering! (or, damn, I hope this is not another shrieking post in the interminable series on torture)
The Chinese seem to do it better than any. They can take everything from iTunes to $300 Callaway golf clubs tear it down, meticulously copy it and manufacture it on the fly. The only problem is that, as remarkable as their copycat factories are, they produce an inferior product. But that is the objective- free patents, trademarks and copyrights, added to cheap materials and labor, produce a cheap product that can be sold on ebay at amazing bargain-basement prices! However, the Callalway driver doesn't drive anything like the real Callaway because the metal core has been changed. It looks perfect from the outside; a beautiful Callaway driver, but it is not a Callaway. Outside it looks good; inside it is mush.
