The reasons behind Apple’s fight against Qualcomm seem as poorly founded as President Trump’s reasons for wanting a wall. Pretty much everyone who understands walls — including China, which has the biggest — knows they don’t really work. Unless you can afford to man the thing, people will find ways over or under it.

With ever-bigger drones in development, it likely would be a matter of months before someone figured out how to build human-carrying drones to fly over en masse (or they could just buy, or more likely rent, one of these).

So why does Trump really want a wall? It likely is because it would be called “Trump’s Wall” and it could be seen from space. It effectively would be a lasting monument to Trump — you know, the guy who puts his name on all his properties and has to be written into any movie shot on one.

Apple recently was blocked from selling the prior generation of iPhones in China for violating two patents that will be almost impossible to work around. Perhaps taking a page from President Trump’s book, the company did argue that it already had done that — but anyone can pick up a new iPhone and see that, ah, no it hadn’t.