Usually
knockoff artists change
something about their product to slightly distinguish it from the real deal, the first of which is
generally the device's name, followed closely by its price. Well meet the $200 "iPod nano 2GB," whose
striking differences from
Apple's product of the same name are
helpfully delineated by its Chicago Craigslist seller, all [sic]: "Note that the wheel for these nano is not
operated by touching the wheel, the wheel is actually bottons and must be clicked for selecting files and video or even
functions you will be clicking the wheel to navigate within the nano. Also, The earphone connect from the side and not
from the bottom of the nano." So besides the headphone jack "upgrade," this
i-Bob lookalike also plays back video, and may even come in
what seems to be a genuine Apple nano box. Thanks, guys, but even video playback and a resituated jack could never break
Steve J.'s
incredibly powerful hold over us.
Update: The read link is apparently dead now, which is fine by us. Apple lawyers (or Newmark's
army): 1 (yes folks, just like us, they work weekends), Shady resellers: 0.
[Thanks, Michael]
posted Jan 15th 2006 4:30PM
I did a review of the knock off Nano awhile ago. Believe it or not it's actually pretty decent and cheap as hell if you look arond ($50 CDN total for a 256 MB model)
Review:
http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=293421
See my December website [since updated] for a summary of thi sindustry. I have actually sighted th ecomplete knowckoffs, complete with nano packaging, apple barcodes [identical barcodes from box to box] and a cd inside with apple grey colouring and logo [although it contains teh usual Chinese software], and even an apple software agreement! [although there's no apple software in the box or player].
http://aussie149.wordpress.com/2005/12/
Hi Everyone,
I bought one of those knockoff the other day. I read the top-line thinking it was nano , but if course it was aknock off. it is working pretty well so far. Do not fall for it.
Later,
Frank
www.sellerkey.com
Is the technical support done by Apple? cos the documentation looks an awful lot like the Apple iPod's...
No one cares at this point. You could start an entirely new blog machine based on knock-off products. OR, products that are good enough, so people dont need to spend a crapload of money to get the real thing.
But like I said, who cares! :)
ive just added the guy on messenger :D im gonna tell him i want to buy a hundred or something, make him well happy!
Does anyone have a mirror of this? Craigslist took it down.
If the knockoff didn't done get itself SCRATCHED TO A POINT OF ILLEGIBILITY in, say, the first five minutes, I say bring 'em on.
dead link.
haha finally one of my finds makes it on engadget, i have the sellers email and may post it later, i might buy one off of him, he told me he can do 175. i laugh.
in for one...thanks engadget.
"Steve J.'s incredibly powerful hold over us"
So are you or are you not Apple employees or on Apple's payroll? :) (you had to see that one coming)
(actually i think all the people who think that are stupid.. many engadget readers here obviously want to hear about apple 24/7, and engadget obviously caters to that portion...that doesnt mean they are apple propagandists
I dont like what apple has become. It was all good until they started being a complete prick about their stuff and the most annoying thing is the iLable. I like my RCA lyra player (20gb) which mind you cost half as much and released like 3 years before the ipod. Nano's are butt ugly and Apple lost my trust these days. :-/
you are so full of crap number 10
ha ha ha
I'm laughing my ass right off at your lack of taste. Sorry. Apple do the best industrial design out there
ha
ha
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Apple has a long history of using exceedingly inferior, unreliable components wrapped around high quality PLASTICS. Witness the junk batts in older Mac notebooks and iPODs. Witness the scratchy new expensive iPODs.
Now witness all the screaming meemies - aka. macfreak Jobs'-footlickers come rushing in to attack the very notion that APPLE might have ANY issues, whatsoever.
Bring on the clones and ripoffs! My $400 iPOD video scrolls though songs at about one per five seconds - a total slowpoke with junky wheel and a casing that scratches if I look at it funny, requiring TWO different methods to protect its delicate finish. Did we mention the lack of cradle or video cables? Or that you can forget using some or all of your old iPOD stuff with each iteration?
If you ask me, APPLE has been the 'shady reseller' since around 1984.
yeh im gonna take number 15's view the ipods there coming out with arent just mp3 players there almost art work
apple fanboys will claim ANYTHING is a ripoff.
that doesn't look anything like a nano.
Sure does seem like a rip-off.
Seems like one of those chinese-import nano-design ripoffs I've seen on "reseller" websites. This guy probably imported a couple of those and rebranded them.
Did anyone happen to buy one of these? I wonder how they function. Anyone have any other weblinks that might show more information about them? What are these "reseller" pages that some people keep referring to?
d.