In many ways the Shanzai / Gongkai way has is a pre-cursor to the world we'll get as more patent intensive countries get past their expiration dates of those patents. And while I'm not convinced there will be a singularity, I am certain that we'll reach a point where enough stuff will be 'free to use' that the number of choices will grow large and the prices will be as commoditized as possible. An important thing to plan for is a recyclable version of the phone such that you can dispose of it safely and the materials can be recovered. Without that we'll just burn through a variety of rare earth elements by mining them, buying/using them, and then returning them to the earth somewhere else :-).