Indian brand Pebble plans to release a new smartwatch that looks like a blatant Apple Watch Ultra ripoff. The watch has virtually the exact same design as the Apple Watch Ultra and even looks like it will be available with a knockoff Ocean Band.
This is innevitable. As Apple moves more product manufacturing into India, we'll start to see more Apple knock-offs out of that country.
And as Apple moves more manufacturing to Vietnam, we'll start to see Apple knock-offs from them at some point too.
To believe that they will respect Apple's IP more than China is foolish.