“Living in China and reporting on gadgets, we get to see our fair share of unofficial merchandise from Chinese manufacturers,” Andi Sykes reports for Gizchina.
“Sometimes though a Chinese made gadget crops up which combines the ancient Chinese art of the knock off with a complete lack of consideration for the law and copyright infringements,” Sykes reports. “This ‘Commemorative’ Steve Jobs Android tablet is a perfect example.”
“Not only have Shenzhen Lingyun, the company behind this 7-inch Android tablet, made a tablet which resembles the look of the iPhone 4 and 4S, but they have gone the whole hog and place[d] the image of the late Steve Jobs on the screen and are marketing it as a ‘Commemorative Steve Jobs Android Tablet’!”
The tablet’s specs and more info in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Attention Apple Legal: Abomination Alert!
In every culture there are the good and the bad. Don’t generalize this behavior on the whole population. In the US there are the so-called “good” people pontificating on what other peoples ought to do which they could not practice on themselves.
Proof: Look at the economic mess engulfing the “transparent” countries in the West and you would find that the politicians and Wall Street types are no different from the scum of the third world.
The West isn’t innocent. As has been said, we’ve had some pretty nasty people and periods in our history as well, and as has been seen in the banking scandals, our corporate culture has no more moral compass than this article portrays (admittedly for us and China, some are better than others, some worse).
And capitalism only works successfully when everyone involved has the highest moral fiber (same with socialism), which is both why we need government and why government so frequently fails.
the other sad thing about all this is that it also hurts a lot of honest chinese manufacturers and innovators: THEY can’t produce innovative stuff because it gets ripped off.
one Hong Kong film maker complained it’s very hard to make movies because his films get pirated instantly.
a country can’t move up truly in the tech stakes unless it protects IP because there’s no profit in innovation if people can rip it off.
Bullcrap on morality. It’s just greed and opportunism only!
So why is Apple still feeding the disease called ‘China’?
Apple: GET THE HELL OUT OF CHINA!
Jobs hated 7 inch tabs and android, then some Chinese dudes combined the things he hated so much into one neat package to commemorate his death..
Hehehe… Deliciously sweet irony.