By copying them? That's hardly a good long term strategy.
Exactly, this moment reminds me of the same time they did that with the first "Miphone" as they branded it. If I remember correctly, Didn't Apple try to sue them for that?
You would be surprised. That strategy worked for IBM-PC clones.
Apples big asset is OSX. They can't copy that.
Hackintosh.
Highly doubt that. They are losing to Huawei and Oppo in smartphone sales in China.