tony sayer wrote:

Which begs the question when the Chinese take over the design too, what
are we going to be doing?.....

It does indeed.

I happen to be involved in designing pro-audio gear that's manufactured in China.
No choice now about the economics of having to do so.

To date at least, Chinese 'designs' tend to be poor rip-offs / 'copies' of
existing products. This can't be assumed to continue for ever though.

What with outsourcing this and that, does indeed make you wonder what we'll all
be doing one day !


Graham