What you fail to understand is that China doesn't innovate, they only replicate. When it comes to new designs and specs, Apple will work with the chinese factory to create what they need. They then build the machines to create the parts and they get first jump on it for the next few months to a year. Any other designer like Sony, Samsung, Nokia etc... that wants to build something similar got stuck waiting for new inventory that Apple didn't buy or working with other factories in China and teaching them how to make the knock off.
Nobody is asking China to innovate... they want them to Replicate lol.
Just so you know my job at my work was to fly to places like China and conduct factory evaluations to decide if our company was going to work with them or not, so I'm quite familiar with what they do and their production procedures.
Of course Apple gets first dibs because they have the bigger sales... so they are priority? And where are you getting this information anyways.
Also, you are aware that Apple buys a lot of its components from Samsung, Sharp, and LG's factories, right?
As a matter of fact, the processors for Apple devices (Iphone and IPad) are manufactured in Texas at a Samsung Factory:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/16/tech/mobile/apple-a5-chip-texas/index.htmlso you got used to the touch screen then?
Yeah that was definitely hard to get used to I'm not going to lie... but dude we all gotta evolve, better products are out there...
And if you are worried about the touchscreen, remember, you still have options man... Take the Motorola Droid 4 which was just launched earlier this year...
This bad boy has 1.2 Ghz Texas Instrument Dual Core processor running Android, 4G LTE, decent battery life, AND A slide out physical qwerty keyboard