“China’s Shenzhen Great Loong Brother today threatened that it might sue Apple for allegedly cloning one of its tablet PCs with the iPad,” Electronista reports.
“A company spokesman claims the Apple design resembles the black bezel, chrome trimmed P-P-P88 tablet it released in 2009,” Electronista reports. “Since both have roughly 10-inch touchscreens and are technically sold in the US, SGLB could theoretically challenge Apple for cloning its design where the complainant itself has often produced clones of its own.”
Electronista reports, “The P88 itself partly resembles an oversized iPhone but is essentially a touch-only Windows netbook…”
Full article, with an image of the piece of crap, here.
MacDailyNews Take: If Shenzhen Great Loong Brother sues Apple over this, they’re Great Craazy, Brother.
My 19 TFT panel looks the same as yours – I’m gonna sue.
The Chines had better find themselves a no win no fee law firm. They dont have a hope in hell!
How do you say WTF in Chinese?
I think I just might purchase this fine product from our Chinese friends. Looks like great quality with best OS available and the manufacturer has a good reputation and probably offers first class service… What a Loooosers!
Time for FORD to sue every other car company. What? Well, they’ve all got wheels!
Isn’t that like Nike suing Adidas because the latter uses laces? Every flatscreen or monitor has a frame around the screen. And whether they use chrome trim or another material is hardly something that can be copyrightable.
This plaintiff is just another loser looking for a quick payday. And, yes, Apple’s design is a lot nicer than their POC.
So the lawyers in China have more chutzpah than the lawyers in the U.S.?
Wow!
What would Google do?
Oh yeah, they look exactly the same right down to the little green START button in the corner.
This story is crap….like the Chinese are really going to sue a high visibility company like Apple for creating a knockoff. In a way I hope they are that stupid…free advertising for the iPad.
This is just a quick try at publicity ad will die quickly.
Let’s see how this works…party A copy the iPhone and make it bigger. Party B copies it’s own iPhone and makes it bigger and is sued. And I thought our lawyers in the US were stupid crooks!
No MSG please.
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“Full article, with an image of the piece of crap, here.”
When all the wingnuts start lining up to sue Apple over one of their latest innovations you KNOW it is going to be massive success.
1 hour of battery life!! LOL
I think I’m going to sue China. I have the patent on a rectangle.
It is so funny to see a company in one of the largest counterfeit, copyright infringing nations talk about filing suit. The iPad is simply a larger iPod touch. What is there to sue over?
This is what happens when Chinese exchange students come to the USA to study law.
That is seriously funny….!
Apple should counter-sue claiming that the Chinese tablet ripped off the iPod Touch.
So let me get this right: a company that makes knock-offs wants to sue a company that makes original products. And they want to sue in a country where intellectual property laws are neither respected nor enforced. And they want to sue, based on the notion that a common commodity product, namely an LCD screen that they neither designed nor manufactured is their intellectual property and copyright?
I think I need a drink.
Funny, their clone looks a lot more like the HP tablet.
They just want hits and media coverage. Apple would, in fact, destroy Shenzhen Great Loong Brother in court as their tablet is a direct ripoff of Apple’s iPhone.
Would be nice to see Apple dismantle their company should Shenzhen Great Loong Brother press the issue.
Love the comments. I suspect that this has a lot to do with publicity.
@ Norrin Radd–
It’s completely off-subject, but I am compelled to post…
Contrary to common belief, the first automobile was not a Ford; it was a Mercedes-Benz.
Ford is credited as simplifying the assembly line.
So, no, Ford has no grounds for a lawsuit… Mercedes-Benz on the other hand…
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他妈的什么？
跆拳道
Sue them for making a (very, very) crummy copy of a large iPod Touch…
the lid of an Apple laptop—right down to the black glossy face. It has no chrome.
It does NOT look like the Chinese tablet—but that one does seem to be an iPhone rip-off!
I bet the whole point of the Chinese pad was to beat iPad to market, with a design intentionally coped from Apple, in the hopes that the iPad would look just like it. Then see a settlement out of court and pocket the dough.
It backfired when the iPad ended up looking like a MacBook instead of an iPhone. But the Chinese company blunders ahead with the plan anyway.
I had no idea that the Chinese had acquired enough Jewish genes to have that much chutzpah and it’s not often I would cite the philosophy of Dick Cheney, but as he allegedly said to Patrick Leahy…
“Go fsck yourself”.
Now, because I’m British and manners cost nothing.
“Please go fsck yourself”.
And because I believe it’s always best that there’s some clarity on timing.
“Please go fsck yourself now!!”
When Apple made beige computers, then so did everyone else. When Apple made dark lap-tops, so did everyone else. When Apple switched to metal so did everyone else. None of this was legally actionable.
They’re cloners. Their N88 mimicks the iPhone completely with the chrome bezel. It’ll be laughed out of court, because they have no idea what is infringement. Look at their other products, they completely rip off an iMac!
I wonder how many Chinese citizens are employed because of Apple? I think Steve should contact Hu Jintao and arrange for these imbeciles to be chastised. Of course, over there they do their reprimanding with bullets. OK by me.
@ TheConfuzed1
D’oh! Perhaps we should trade screen names!!!
Apple’s iPad resembles this Chinese piece of crap the way a Toyota resembles a Yugo. Not to mention that the design of the Chinese product was obviously inspired by the iPhone, and I’m using the word “inspired” very loosely.
“A company spokesman claims the Apple design resembles the black bezel, chrome trimmed P-P-P88 tablet it released in 2009,”
Looks like a poor copy of Apple’s iPhone released in 2007 and on the designer’s board a couple of years earlier…
Apple should countersue accusing the P-P-P88 talet of copying the iPhone!
I saw that P88 couple of month ago. They must have something else they are talking about. I’m talking about the one that runs Win XP, has chrome bezel, thick polished black plastic case, and it looks like a netbook. The front area doesn’t count. If you are using a LCD panel they will all look the same with the support frame. I don’t think they are talking about the one what the link shows.
I have seen dozens of similar looking pads over the years (if you just look at the front), so where is the slim aluminum P88 with curved back?
ONE HOUR OF BATTERY LIFE!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!~!!!
and THAT’s probably inflated!!!! HA HA HA HAOOOOOHHHH AAAAHHHH
It looks like a designed TV coming straight form the 70s SCI-FI. LOL
They sue Apple for a Design Apple Originally came out with????
Apple basically oversized an iPod touch and used better hardware to make iPad. A cloner is the last company expected to win.
Whoa I missed the 1 Hour Battery life.
My Old 1.2Ghz iBook G4 can still do 1.5 and it’s used 88% of it’s charing cycles.
Where’s the home button?
hey you copied, my enlarged copy of your iphone, that’s not fair
Sue Apple…? They should thank Apple. Now, they can put a fake Apple logo on their product with an “iPad” sticker, and sell ten times as many to the same people who buy fake Louis Vuitton handbags and Rolex watches. What a bonanza for Shenzhen Great Loong Brother (is that the real name of their company – seriously?)
It’s an ugly, clunky turd and the only way they’ll make any money from it is an unlikely success in suing Apple.
Maybe Apple should sue them, because the chinese tablet looks like a big iPod Touch
justme2 : How do you say WTF in Chinese?
What the Pho?
What the Fong?
Ok, this has to be a joke. That is the ugliest piece of f&*&^*^cking chinese shit I have ever seen. Thing looks like it leaks acid and is probably contaminated with a lead coating that will roast your balls right off if you have it on you lap for more than 10 seconds- ugly as in fugugly–I just made that last word up
I would have thought the Joojoo people would sue, if anyone. Same $499 price introduced late last year. Job’s “magical” description, Joojoo translates to magic.
Has bigger screen, plays flash, camera too.
https://thejoojoo.com/
Cloning the iPod Touch and than getting hangry about iPads design… Very funny!
何の事だこれえええ
Can they have the name “brother” as part of their registered/pirated/copied business name when selling computer electronics internationally? Since it directly affects Brother?
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I bought my authentic iPhoon in china, works great ESP the plastic screen. And mine comes with a free stylus, and a Louis Vachon carrycase.