basically this. modern small electronics is the same way, i got an electric cooler to put in my car and leave plugged in...there is a phillips model that is $350, there is a no-name chinese knock off that is $140, the only difference is that the factory switched out the nameplate in the plastic mold from one company name to the other. literally everything else is exactly the same. i don;t even know who started selling the cooler first, was it phillips or was it the chinesium brand?...did someone at phillips buy the chinesium and say "hey, if we slapped our logo on this then we'd be the only major company selling this product and we could mark it up 250% for our brand name recognition" then they just copied the product?
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