You realize you're talking about a company that only historically releases a new product that they think will make billions of dollars and ship lots of units ri

You realize you're talking about a company that only historically releases a new product that they think will make billions of dollars and ship lots of units right? Vision Pro is shaping up to be the exception. The counterpoint to that strategy is Meta which is pricing the Quest as cheaply as possible and selling as absolutely many as they can. I'm really not seeing this pattern you're describing. China historically just copies successful products and largely ignores IP, not coming up with anything novel. They are changing that pattern following the path America did to seize control from the UK (& arguably faster too). If anything, this suggests it would be more beneficial for us to have IP durations match typical market cycles for products rather than be blanket 15 years. > The current war in Ukraine emphasizes the Western incapability to produce almost anything in volume That's a different problem than manufacturing of consumer products. Apple ships nearly 1B phones each year. Yes, it's assembled in China but most of the components are manufactured elsewhere & they're standing up assembly plants elsewhere (e.g. India).