Aiks... Just got Panasonic airconds installed for the whole house about a month back. 
Using a mix of the normal and EcoNavi models.... fingers crossed that everything works well.

Used Daikin aircond before at my parents place and that was one aircond that was forever giving me problems. From water leaks to air being not cold enough... it was a constant every couple of months nightmare. Had it changed to an older model Pana and used it a couple of years before i moved out of my parents place with no issues.

Aircond still going strong and cold even though i've not slept in that room in over a year. Maybe its a mix of the aircond manufacturers, the sellers and a lil bit of luck that determines a persons experience with a specific brand. 

I thought that is Taiwan..Every year when my boss and my team go for New technology exhibition in Germany, they have a big sign at the entrance "We apologize but no Taiwanese allowed"

Because they always copy other's machines and sell it at a much much lower cost and cheaper change parts, but the quality/accuracy is not there

China buy than reversed engineer it  ;-)

Have you see the crv of China. Dam real from far.

With quantity comes quality.
China DVD used to last 1 month, Nowadays I switch on my China brand DVD machine on all the time hoping for it to rosak so i have excuse to change a new one ... still waiting after 4 years. 

With quantity comes innovation.
China converting machines used to be cheap and quite basic, Nowadays their prices are going up up up, and the new machines output, percision, range are increasing day by day, even the west is using China machines more and more.

With quantity comes power.
Companies initially complained about China copying and kept their technology under wraps whithin their oun countries, Nowadays they are opening plants and even sub contracting manufacturing to China. e.g. Iphone to Foxconn in China.

With quantity comes acceptance.
Countries used to target China as their main competitor, Nowadays they all want to sell to china.

The sleeping dragon has awakened. 

Us are afraid of them, because China is the largest US bonds hold. If they dump all the bonds US still go shock at least for few years. The money will be less than our boleh dollars.

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Added on July 28, 2012, 2:07 pm

Quantity yes, quality maybe, innovative I will say close to non. If they are good, they will have more innovative product and application. 

You should see their gen X people, many are spoiled.

my pana inverter (used for about 2 years) suddenly turned off. Turned back on but no more cold air.
Check error codes - give 95.

tech came found mainboard at compressor faulty - one of the caps blew
lucky still got warranty