Indians buy chinese crap because they are cheap not because they are great quality. And dont try to pass of Fox Cons sweat shops as Chinese manufacturing. Its Western, Korean and Japanese tech at work there.
you can only afford product in that quality. That is why you are buying crap.
Totally agree. But those that can afford to pay more dont buy anything Chinese. And there arent any Chinese products competing in that market. Please do not quote Lenovo as an example. It is akin to saying all steel from Arcelor Mittal or cars from Jaguar Land Rover is Indian technological expertise.
10 years ago nobody has heard about Samsung either. Brand recognition takes time.
Lenovo was bought from IBM. ZTE and Huawei are known as malware spreading and data theft companies. Have not heard about haier, what is it? A pet store.
how its related to the size of economy?
You dont go out very often, do you?
If you're thinking that by migrating from paddy fields to the death camps of Foxconn means going out, then, thanks, but no thanks.You dont go out very often, do you?
It's growing in size because of local demand. The whole world over sees it as a data and IP thief. Just becoming big by sales does not mean it commands respect.CHINESE companies have started to win first place in global markets. Huawei has just overtaken Sweden's Ericsson to become the world's largest telecoms-equipment-maker. Even though many foreigners still cannot pronounce its name (some call it "Hawaii", and the firm has even produced a video teaching people to say hwah-way), Huawei is becoming an increasingly powerful global player, capable of going head-to-head with the best in intensely competitive markets. It follows Haier, which is already the leading white-goods-maker; now Lenovo is challenging Hewlett-Packard as the world's biggest PC-maker.
Chinese multinationals: Who's afraid of Huawei? | The Economist
Stop daydreaming og go out more often.
i dont know about that. i know many people love tsingdao beer
haier make mini-fridge, electric wine cellar etc. and yes they have brand name here in US. goto costaco/sam club youll find some. most china brand can be seen in developing world, not much in developed world.
Does it matter they are genuine or thief. Its business, you get it by hook or crook. They are not killing anyone to become leader unlike few sectors who endorse govts. to get their objectives met.
Exactly the point. They make cheap copies so what, now a villager can afford chinese phone with built in MP3 and video player, camera etc. In my college days, the janitors used to play songs and watch them. Don't buy these cheap copies but a poor person who wants to wear a jeans with Levis tag on it will buy the local product, he won't care, who will know if its original one or local jeans with tag from old original one. It serves the need of low income people. So these cheap copies company are one section while other companies lies in other section.
You got a point. But I don't want that to be applied to Indian companies. They have a reputation. And money too. US is # 1 because they spend billions in R & D. Indian spends little or nothing on R & D. And that has to do with the size of the economy. India doesn't have that much money to invest 100s of billions in R & D, but that doesn't mean stealing should be encouraged. China with all it's cheap manufacturing industry, however goliath it becomes, will always play second fiddle to US. While we'll be catching up with our own indigenous efforts.
What i am really saying is copy the existing technology and then introduce your own R&D. India is working forward to electronic chips manufacturing but that doesn't mean I reinvent the transistor or the architecture. Private companies especially the start ups are trying to innovate and make their own product. Govt. is now paying attention on R&D funding and new technological institutes. Handsome salary is also one issue. The reason Americans are innovative is their education system. We have to start top-down approach to make our education system better. Most of the top engineering and management institutes don't compromise on quality. Its damn hard for an Indian person to get a job in IIT as a teaching faculty if he has done his studies in India. They prefer those who have done it in top world universities. I am talking about current scenario.
/\/\/\ Lol, transistor and it's architecture is already in books for decades. But yeah, I get your point.
....yeah but it shows mindset of most of the Indians. We will start from the very beginning or won't build at all. I used to bang my head whenever i witnessed this mentality. but there is one another point, if you start from very beginning, you may sometime get way better thing or innovation in another field. 
The obvious question is how you exactly measure that? How you know you have succeeded or not. I noticed you didnt give any exemples either. After all you had what, 6 decades after your independence?
