I have always thought that there sure seems to be a butt load of these new never used SOLO's being offered for sale continuously. My second thought was this: What's to prevent the Chinese entrepreneurs from taking the molds, the design, the tooling, and continue to make these quads on their own? Maybe with the blessing, (or a wink and a nod, and backdoor under the table payola) from 3dr, or maybe not, but they will make them either way. SOLO is a proven design and proven seller. That is a lot of incentive to continue with the manufacture. And the Chinese love to "appropriate" proven technologies already in place. So in that way it would make sense.
I think most manufacturers see the companion computer as an unnecessary weight penalty. To DJI, that weight could be better used for collision avoidance sensors or 10 seconds more flight time.
