Two can play that game Apple!

[Nemo128]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!

Memo to Samsung (005930): Now this is how you get away with copying Apple (AAPL)! GizChina reports that a Chinese manufacturer has used leaked photos of Apple’s next-generation iPhone to slap together a quick knockoff of the device called the Goophone I5 and release it before Apple has a chance to launch the genuine article later this month. What’s more, the company has actually patented the knockoff design in China and is poised to sue Apple if it launches the next-generation iPhone in China later this year. For any Chinese readers who are interested in buying a not-quite-iPhone, GizChina says that the Goophone will feature “a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core 1.4Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM, Android 4.0 ICS with an iOS 6 theme, 8 megapixel rear camera and a 4-inch screen with an impressive retina display resolution of 1280 x 720.”

iPhone 5 design copied, patented: Goophone i5 Chinese iPhone clone

 

[lsiberian]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!

Memo to Samsung (005930): Now this is how you get away with copying Apple (AAPL)! GizChina reports that a Chinese manufacturer has used leaked photos of Apple’s next-generation iPhone to slap together a quick knockoff of the device called the Goophone I5 and release it before Apple has a chance to launch the genuine article later this month. What’s more, the company has actually patented the knockoff design in China and is poised to sue Apple if it launches the next-generation iPhone in China later this year. For any Chinese readers who are interested in buying a not-quite-iPhone, GizChina says that the Goophone will feature “a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core 1.4Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM, Android 4.0 ICS with an iOS 6 theme, 8 megapixel rear camera and a 4-inch screen with an impressive retina display resolution of 1280 x 720.”

iPhone 5 design copied, patented: Goophone i5 Chinese iPhone clone

I'm not sure how you see this as a good thing. Apple engineers built the iPhone shouldn't they get paid for it? I have no idea where this idea that I should just give you my creations free came from.

 

[slipperybidness]

I'm not sure how you see this as a good thing. Apple engineers built the iPhone shouldn't they get paid for it? I have no idea where this idea that I should just give you my creations free came from.

It's just slightly humorous that someone is trying to beat apple at their own game.

 

[lsiberian]

It's just slightly humorous that someone is trying to beat apple at their own game.

Is it a game? Samsung basically stole the iPhone design. One can argue the merits of patents of course, but Samsung clearly copied the iPhone.

I do think Software Patents should last only a couple years though.

 

[slipperybidness]

Is it a game? Samsung basically stole the iPhone design. One can argue the merits of patents of course, but Samsung clearly copied the iPhone.

I do think Software Patents should last only a couple years though.

It's just the way they lock all their products down, make you play by their rules or not at all. The upside is everything works the first try, user friendly, very stable, etc. The downside is you pay a premium, you must play by their rules, etc.

I'm not saying that stealing someone's ideas is right, it is not. I'm saying it's amusing to see someone try to stick it to apple with their iron-fist business practices.

 

[lsiberian]

It's just the way they lock all their products down, make you play by their rules or not at all. The upside is everything works the first try, user friendly, very stable, etc. The downside is you pay a premium, you must play by their rules, etc.

I'm not saying that stealing someone's ideas is right, it is not. I'm saying it's amusing to see someone try to stick it to apple with their iron-fist business practices.

I don't personally like it either, but I understand it. By locking software it makes it much easier to test and debug.

 

[markw]

That's what you get when you outsource everything, particularly to China.

We do the R&D and engineering on high tech stuff and then give all that info to them to make it for for us cheap so "we" can reapthe profits.

Yeah, they'll do our sh!t work for pennies on the dollar and not steal us blind at every opportunity. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Now, if this was made "in house", or at least "in country", perhaps it might cost a bit more but some companies are willing to take that risk to offer a product for cheap.

 

[jinjuku]

It's just slightly humorous that someone is trying to beat apple at their own game.

That game would be R&D most likely in the 100's of millions. A thousand engineers from all walks:

Software (UI/Core OS/IO/Networking Stack/Driver and Device level stuff)
Hardware: Screen tech, chipset, I/O, Antenna/Wireless, battery, CPU/SOC
Form-factor engineering: Layout, case design, button design, materials testing
Software back end like iTunes and App Store.

Copying is just copying. They aren't beating anyone at their own game. They'll only be playing that game when the do all the above in house.

 

[jinjuku]

It's just the way they lock all their products down, make you play by their rules or not at all. The upside is everything works the first try, user friendly, very stable, etc. The downside is you pay a premium, you must play by their rules, etc.

Well so far Apple has proven that their approach actually works.

Android? You have different (quality) CPU's, Different (quality) screen resolutions, different (quality) of Android OS implementations.

Just the fact that all these manufactures have the ability to determine all of that undermines the user experience.

I have Android ICS on a usb stick computer. It's rather ho-hum compared to my iPhone.

 

[jinjuku]

We do the R&D and engineering on high tech stuff and then give all that info to them to make it for for us cheap so "we" can reapthe profits.

Yeah, they'll do our sh!t work for pennies on the dollar and not steal us blind at every opportunity. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Now, if this was made "in house", or at least "in country", perhaps it might cost a bit more but some companies are willing to take that risk to offer a product for cheap.

Holy **** Mark. Did you ever hit that nail on the head. We got tired of paying ~$400 for a door controller. We designed our own and have it built in CT at a small boutique fab. Our cost is $140. And that puts Americans to work.

We could take it to a Chinese fab and probably get another $25 of profit out of it. But as the saying goes pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

We know at the CT fab they aren't going to tape out another run of it and re-badge it. In China it's a GUARANTEE.

 

[lsiberian]

We do the R&D and engineering on high tech stuff and then give all that info to them to make it for for us cheap so "we" can reapthe profits.

Yeah, they'll do our sh!t work for pennies on the dollar and not steal us blind at every opportunity. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Now, if this was made "in house", or at least "in country", perhaps it might cost a bit more but some companies are willing to take that risk to offer a product for cheap.

You ever had Chinese eggs. I don't buy that the product is gonna be equal to the iphone, but hey at least the workers can own one.

 

[markw]

You ever had Chinese eggs. I don't buy that the product is gonna be equal to the iphone, but hey at least the workers can own one.

Just remember, we designed the chickens, had them make them for us, and they stole the blueprints from us.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I have Android ICS on a usb stick computer. It's rather ho-hum compared to my iPhone.

Let me rephrase it in car terms - I have Ford Fiesta. It's rather ho-hum compared to my Mercedes S-class...

I have (not even newest) SG2 running stock ICS with few (non-rooted) changes as diff launcher and keyboard. It's literally the best phone I owned and I can not imagine I'd need to switch it soon. And yea , in car terms I consider SG2 as Impreza STI equivalent in car terms ...

Apple vs Samsung fight was stupid on many levels and the problem is both sides are wrong. Both parties got "inspired" from previous designs, yet Apple claims they reinvented the wheel and jury was too lazy to carefully inspect the evidence.

True - Then first iPhone came out - it did many things better than current competition, yet It wasn't all 100% new. Just improved many on several old designs.

 

[sholling]

Apple a copy cat themselves thinks that they should be able to patent the look of their phones which is silly. You should patent new hardware inventions not look and feel. I think I'll patent red cars and sue everyone making a red car.

I'm really hoping the Google/Motorola blocks Apple from importing products, for a few months, just to teach them a lesson.

 

[slipperybidness]

actually, it is pretty well-known that Jobs stole some Xerox ideas decades ago.

How Steve Jobs Stole the GUI from Xerox - YouTube

What goes around comes around.

 

[3db]

Apple a copy cat themselves thinks that they should be able to patent the look of their phones which is silly. You should patent new hardware inventions not look and feel. I think I'll patent red cars and sue everyone making a red car.

I'm really hoping the Google/Motorola blocks Apple from importing products, for a few months, just to teach them a lesson.

I want RIM to go after Apple for coming with facetime, a clear rip off of RIM"s BBM.

 

[Stereodude]

Is it a game? Samsung basically stole the iPhone design. One can argue the merits of patents of course, but Samsung clearly copied the iPhone.

And Apple stole the iPhone design from LG. I guess what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander.