Exactly, I work on the mechanical hardware side of tech. I've long said that any company making physical products in the consumer space has to have something pr

Exactly, I work on the mechanical hardware side of tech. I've long said that any company making physical products in the consumer space has to have something proprietary that cannot be easily copied, typically a software ecosystem. It doesn't help that $7 for a piece of molded plastic that size is absolutely insane. Of course someone is going to copy it when they can make a good profit selling it for half the price in a country where you have no chance of defending your patents against copycats.