Apple hasn't released the iPad in China yet but it's clear local manufacturers are eager to capitalize on Apple's advertising.
There are tons of companies planning tablets to take on the iPad. Some of them will be running full versions of Windows while others will Android or Chrome OS-based. One tablet running Android is currently doing the rounds in China and it's shameless hoping to profit from the popularity of the iPad, which just launched in Japan last week.
Meet the iPed:
Dressed like an iPad, the packaging for the knock-off device is so similar to the Apple packaging that you have to look twice before realising it's not the real thing. Though the device is a little curvier around the edges than the iPad, it's clear the makers went to great lengths to make this as similar to the Apple creation as possible, right down to the dock, which includes a little iPod icon dubbed 'iPed.'
Probably the most attractive feature of this device is the OS combined with the price. Running Google's Android OS and costing just $105, it's cheaper than the majority of Android smartphones out there, never mind the iPad.
However, though it's dirt cheap, that drop in price doesn't come easily; the hardware isn't on par with what you get in the iPad. It runs on an Intel CPU, packs 128MB of RAM and comes with 16GB of storage. It's also got a 7-inch display rather than the 9.7 inches offered by iPad. It's not the fastest of machines but for $105, you can't really be expecting much.
The iPad has yet to launch in China so it'll be interesting to see how many people purchase one of these before the lawyers in Cupertino wake up.
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They've been doing it for years. However, they did invent gunpowder
For some reason, for $105, this seems far more useful than the iPad, esp. considering this is running Android.
It wont be long before I start seeing these flood eBay in mass.
They've been doing it for years. However, they did invent gunpowder
For some reason, for $105, this seems far more useful than the iPad, esp. considering this is running Android.
Indeed, the OS is the most attractive feature.
It wont be long before I start seeing these flood eBay in mass.
Sure Apple can sue... winning is another matter. Considering how many clones come out of China of other products that can't be stopped (womens designer handbags being a prime example) how much success do you think Apple would have? Personally, I think it would be a waste of money trying.
As for innovation... the ipad isn't innovative... it's a big itouch. Apple is known as a company that takes every day technology, wraps it in pretty consumer friendly packaging then markets the hell out of it.
No we didn't wow is everyoine really like this in the US!
Can't innovate? And the iPad isn't just a fancier version of tablet PC's and such that have been around for a while now? Nobody innovates anymore, they just take ideas and make small changes. For some reason people think apple innovates, they haven't innovated, they just play to morons who follow like lemmings.
Dont confuse government with population!!
As for the iPed! simply awesome, costs 1/5th and performs 90% of the iPad!
Don't worry, The All Mighty Steve Jobs will stop the Chinese
Apple can't Innovate? What other 9.7ish inch screen devices run for 10hrs? And get away with 4 buttons and a switch to do all that an ipad does?
And no the ipad isn't a fancier version of a tablet pc, it's a cell phone stretched out.
Also lemmings don't run off cliffs, they make it look like they do so the predator following them only think they did, meanwhile the lemming is chilling on a ledge just off the side of the cliff safely waiting predator to pass.
People that think lemmings actually run off cliffs, are just morons that were tricked into believing a false myth.