“.. WIRED buys the iPhone 6 schematic book (above) for 25 RMB (£2.70) .. It's like getting a master class on circuit design .. for £2.70, engineers in China can get a leg up on the best and brightest university-educated kids by studying these designs ..
.. there are established, legitimate businesses that earn their keep creating schematics from circuit boards. As the pace of Moore's law diminishes, learning through reverse engineering will become increasingly effective, as me-too products will have a larger market window to amortise reverse-engineering efforts before the next new thing comes along.
.. Even a modest deceleration of Moore's law can have a dramatic effect: a five per cent reduction in the pace of gate-length shrinkage -- from 16 percent to 11 per cent per year -- increases the available time to develop products within a technology generation by 50 per cent, from two years up to three.
.. Instead of running in fear of obsolescence, open-source hardware developers now have time to build communities around platforms; we can learn from each other, share blueprints and iterate prototypes before committing to a final design.”