That company should do well. Chinese competitors may copy a design and try to undersell you – but you're countering by selling to the high end market (like Appl

That company should do well. Chinese competitors may copy a design and try to undersell you – but you're countering by selling to the high end market (like Apple does). I hope the company does well! The really hard part is the supply chain. For example, Apple was hit by the "bad cap" problem when they went with the cheaper caps (stolen formula): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_espionage_implicated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_esp... SpaceX appears to be producing so much of their design in-house that the suppliers don't yet play a major role. I'm going with the assumption SpaceX will be around long term, so that will be a challenge as they try to bring costs down even more. They're not selling to the high end market.