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cavx No I don't own ant Cannon products. China is not known for producing high quality electronics or having high standards for quality control or even decent work environments. Now throw in that any company that sells knock-off products is PROBABLY not going to invest a ton into a product that can't be really sold worldwide and has a great potential to be shut down at any moment.
Do they get shut down or do they just go quiet and relocate? China is not like the western world. The rules seem very different there. Patents pretty much don't exist and are certainly not worth the paper they are printed on. If a Chinese company wants to copy something, they do.
I won't argue about the shoes, but you seriously need to look into OPPO and ROTEL if you want paint Chinese made electronics with the crap brush. OPPO was an LA based company who is now 100% Chinese. Their first product was a DVD player in 2003 for just $350USD that could do everything that the Pioneer 969 could do, and did it for 1/10 the price. It got the worlds attention and they went from strength to strength with their Blu-ray players and even their phones (mobiles and headphones) are really good. Today they produce the worlds best Blu-ray / UHD Disc players. Everything they have made has stirred the industry and raised the bar. They have the most amazing customer service and they are the ONLY BD player in the world to have passed the 60 bench tests by THX. I got to meet a rep in 2010 and he said that they won't get certified because they know that pushes their price up and they are better than the THX certified Onkyo that didn't pass all 60 bench tests.
Pretty much every Japanese electronics company (and Marty was right in 1985/1955 to say that the best electronics) came from Japan. Japan outpriced itself and now get their stuff made in either China, Malaysia or Thailand? Companies (SONY, Yamaha, Panasonic to name just a few) simply moved west. Panasonic did their best to stay in Japan with Plasma, even they had to fold and their main competitor was Korean. They have set up their factories and they supervise the work of their products in the mainland . Their products are good.
These shoe? Well yeah. The materials on the V3 MAGs seem to be very good, probably as good as any genuine NIKE shoe. It is the electronics that suck. Not just the components, but the thin wires and bad batteries and now of course, these mechanics in these V4 shoes are just a joke.
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Perhaps some reverse engineering with better materials of these gear assemblies could be done and sold as kits to retrofit normal V3.1s into V4s.
From the limited images I have seen on an opened V4, the construction of the upper (the way it attached to the mid-sole) and the mid-sole itself is different. There is an extra recess to house this crap gear box.
