Exactly as the US did to the UK in the late 1800s, and Japan + Korea to the US in the 1970s on. There is advantage to not being the incumbent. First you copy (

Exactly as the US did to the UK in the late 1800s, and Japan + Korea to the US in the 1970s on. There is advantage to not being the incumbent. First you copy (badly) and soon enough you match quality and innovate. That you can do so without the years of technical debt or obsolete tooling and infrastructure gives speed advantages.