It’s happening in other industries and other countries all the time, and is often called “benchmark” or “benchmarking.” If you were a cog in a relevant enterprise at the right position, like in engineering/R&D, you’d sometimes get emails with a dossier like “we have disassembled the new [product of a competitor]… weight of all parts… principle component X utilizes….”
Rarely you will see a 100% copy as result. Patents would prevent that, or what suppliers you have access to, or other considerations such as available self-developed components.
In the auto industry the likes of JATO or CareSoft would be the service providers to source reports from.
people buying whole ass electronic microscopes and gigahertz electronic probes do this for fun of poking processors/embedded controllers/modems/radios, they are not getting their money worth
It’s happening in other industries and other countries all the time, and is often called “benchmark” or “benchmarking.” If you were a cog in a relevant enterprise at the right position, like in engineering/R&D, you’d sometimes get emails with a dossier like “we have disassembled the new [product of a competitor]… weight of all parts… principle component X utilizes….”
Rarely you will see a 100% copy as result. Patents would prevent that, or what suppliers you have access to, or other considerations such as available self-developed components.
In the auto industry the likes of JATO or CareSoft would be the service providers to source reports from.
people buying whole ass electronic microscopes and gigahertz electronic probes do this for fun of poking processors/embedded controllers/modems/radios, they are not getting their money worth
I recognise some of the words.
To be clear, I mean to say the original thing were cope and divisive hypocrisy.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: