> can go on vacay and rip off the results when they get back You can clone the design if there's capital left after consumers have been buying the competitor f

> can go on vacay and rip off the results when they get back You can clone the design if there's capital left after consumers have been buying the competitor for years, but can you clone the manufacturing process or price as easily when you're years behind? We see with Qualcomm CPUs and Android phones - the internals are still a few years behind iPhone after about a decade, and Apple still takes the lions share of profits in the phone market.