Wooooah, slow your roll there big trucker. You talking as of last week or what? Because my experience remains: Chinese goods are normally single-use items, and unreliable even then.
And the DVDFab update they pushed a couple months ago rendered the product unusable, and I haven’t been able to get it to work since.
Yeah I think thats true. China produces adulterated controlled substances better than anywhere else on earth. They keep making research chemicals intended to get around laws regarding drugs.
I was under the impression India more produced mainstream pharmaceutical products while bypassing patent laws, while China makes all these new forms of controlled substances to bypass criminal laws.
BTO? My acronym finder had a couple dozen for BTO and none of them made sense in this context.
I think you are basically right. People countering that these are just examples of things made (virtually) only in China, not the best, are on shaky ground assuming all the products made (virtually) only in China are ones where there isn’t market demand for superior products. That’s doubtful. Within the range of both tech and other products (printing, plastic items in general) where China is basically the only place these things are now made are various products and categories where the market demands high quality. Those products would still also be made somewhere else in significant quantity if there was a high quality niche where Chinese manufacturers could not meet the demand.
I think the only way to interpret OP’s question (which is in fairness pointed toward by a subsequent clarification) where it would be hard to name Chinese things is if the question is really ‘are they any iconic global consumer brands from China, not including foreign brands which do some or all of their manufacturing in China, associated with prestige in a given product or segment?’ And if that’s the real question, it’s hard to name any, so far. Or they are still mainly limited to Chinese traditional goods (traditional Chinese types of pottery was mentioned, traditional Chinese liquors would be another). But obviously large Chinese co’s don’t want that to remain the case and it probably won’t. Already globally known brands like Huawei or Haier are arguably not there yet but some probably will be before very long, some among the wholly Chinese car makers, etc. Like there weren’t any such brands from South Korea but most people would agree there now are, Japan before that.
BTO = build to order aka CTO = configure to order. To say it another way, instead of the standard options for color, memory, storage, keyboard language. For example, I want pink, an ungodly amount of ram, tiny hard drive and a Taiwanese language keyboard, and Apple’s standard options don’t offer that, so I get on the website, build my own, pay a premium, get a shipping time, and Bob’s your uncle.
Not really sure what the OP is looking for? I think your “Germany and cars” is a perception and maybe a brand, but is not an accurate descriptor. One can easily come up with quantifiable quality and price metrics that show a standard Benz or BMW has serious competition or frankly superior products from multiple countries. Maybe it is because they were kinda the first country to claim that mantle (ditto with Swiss and watches or French and wine), but that is a perception rather than quantifiable. no?
There are crafts (cork sculptures), unique local foodstuff that China dominates (Chinese wolfberry), other foodstuff that is available in different countries (tea, ginseng), higher tech (rockets), goods where the majority of the supply chain and manufacturing takes place (PC, mobile phones, tablets).
I would say that operating systems are still beyond the Chinese. Windows, iOS, Android, etc being clear examples. China has wanted to ditch Windows for at least the past 20 years, but simply cannot.
Manufacturing may initially be using imported design, but things get quickly re-engineered, and then if economically viable can be grown. For example, HP probably is unable to design a laptop from scratch these days. They give the ID and guidance around what they want, and it’s Chinese companies that actually produce the design. Frankly, Apple does not have the manufacturing expertise to create a manufacturable iPhone independently. Apple have enough money, and if they wanted to own factories again, *could *build up that expertise, but Apple can’t do that today even if the zombie apocalypse takes china off the map and all the component parts are available.
I’m really blanking on an international perception of something that is widely recognized/branded as Chinese is the “best” for the OP. Undoubtedly, China has the best “stinky tofu” in the world, but that is a niche most folks have never heard of much less wanted to try. And famous Chinese liquor brands such as “Maotai” liquor has never (and I daresay will never) carve out a niche globally such as Scotch Single Malt Whiskey. There simply isn’t the universal appeal (and that shit is nasty IMHO). China produces or has the ability to manufacture the “best” range of products that are not produced in significant quantities elsewhere.
Interesting about DVDFab. I don’t use it myself (don’t need to because 99.9% of Asian DVDs aren’t encrypted), but it’s the most highly recommended ripping program at videohelp.com and I have haven’t read about anyone having issues the the updates. Head over to videohelp.com and post what happened, and someone there is almost sure to be of help. Oh, BTW, on the off chance your copy isn’t legit, don’t post at videohelp. They have a strict no warez rule and I’m likely to be the one to report your post if I saw it wasn’t legit. 
And how–precisely–are they going to know that?
Even their streetlamp poles are impressive-quality porcelain. There’s nothing like it.
There may be known issues with non-legit versions, such as DVDFab checking the license key during an update, that will come us a possible reason. Microsoft has been known to deactivate activation keys that appear too often (sometimes deactivating legit keys) and Volume/Enterprise keys for the same reason.
In general the VH members are very helpful and through in seeking to help posters, and sometimes during the Q&A posts, clues or outright statements, “Have you contacted DVDFab?”, “I can’t because I didn’t buy it from them.” will come out.
Also, DVDFab has a forum, you might try checking for an answer there. A major issue such as it stopping working after an update will surely be a topic there.