Reading many of the comments here (including from other similar stories on this forum), it is obvious that a lot of you salivate over this kind of trash from places such as China. Despite the fact you are aware that it shows complete disrespect for intellectual property. Why? Because (you think) it gets you what you want for a few bucks less, and therefore deserves encouragement. (And, clearly, anything that offers an opportunity to bash Apple, Microsoft, etc., can't be half-bad, right?)
When that job or service that you perform gets outsourced, I hope that the other part of your brain realizes exactly what happened, and why.
Woah, easy there! No need to turn what should be an interesting and humourous look at an iPhone knock-off into a slanging match. No amount of fuming about intellectual property rights is going to stop these devices being made and I doubt the majority of Chinese people have to money to shell out for something as expensive as the iphone so it's hardly cannibalising Apple's sales. Quite frankly, even here in the UK people aren't that willing to pay the premium for it either.
It's not that it's 'cool' to bash big companies, it's just that it's hard to see why a large corporation with massive budgets can't add the multitude of features that these smaller electronics manufacturers can. You can't help but feel shafted when one of these major companies puts out a product with limited format support, basic/common features missing (the iPhone is very guilty of this), not enough storage space, etc etc.
I find these things fascinating in terms of what they're like to use and whether they've managed to come any where near the standard of the original...plus, some of them are just so silly it's hilarious. The knock-offs may lack originality but the one thing I do hope they do is encourage lazy manufacturers to give people a reason to keep coming back to their products for more than the name.
Let me respond to just a couple of your points (admitting that I was being a bit harsh in generalizing, knowing fully well that some of the posts were just attempting humor; but it was on purpose, since I have seen similar sentiments expressed way too many times on this forum, and rarely has someone taken the trouble to point out the other side of the argument):
1) You said: ".......No amount of fuming about intellectual property rights is going to stop these devices being made and I doubt the majority of Chinese people have to money to shell out for something as expensive as the iphone so it's hardly cannibalising Apple's sales......."
Response: The issue is not whether the Chinese can afford it; it is really about whether you and I, in the West can afford it, and cheer this on because of the few extra bucks that we are trying to save.
2) You said: ".... it's just that it's hard to see why a large corporation with massive budgets can't add the multitude of features that these smaller electronics manufacturers can. You can't help but feel shafted when one of these major companies puts out a product with limited format support, basic/common features missing (the iPhone is very guilty of this), not enough storage space, etc etc."
Response: You have absolutely no idea why some of these things might be missing from a large corporation's product. (And, your holier-than-thou reaction is typical.) Perhaps there were unresolved or expensive IP issues involved, I don't know. However, I can **confidently** tell you that some Chinese knock-off company -- one that gives a hoot whatsoever about any IP issues in the first place -- cares little about any one of the "multitude of features" it adds to anything. After knocking off the look, the feel, the interface, and (heck) even the tag-line of a product, do you seriously think this company worries about offering lots of knocked-off "format support" or whatever else?
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Reading many of the comments here (including from other similar stories on this forum), it is obvious that a lot of you salivate over this kind of trash from places such as China. Despite the fact you are aware that it shows complete disrespect for intellectual property. Why? Because (you think) it gets you what you want for a few bucks less, and therefore deserves encouragement. (And, clearly, anything that offers an opportunity to bash Apple, Microsoft, etc., can't be half-bad, right?)
When that job or service that you perform gets outsourced, I hope that the other part of your brain realizes exactly what happened, and why.
Good luck.
I think it also has a lot to do with it being trendy to hate the iPhone.
pretty sure 99% of the comments above yours were sarcism. no one is gonna buy this crap.
Woah, easy there! No need to turn what should be an interesting and humourous look at an iPhone knock-off into a slanging match. No amount of fuming about intellectual property rights is going to stop these devices being made and I doubt the majority of Chinese people have to money to shell out for something as expensive as the iphone so it's hardly cannibalising Apple's sales. Quite frankly, even here in the UK people aren't that willing to pay the premium for it either.
It's not that it's 'cool' to bash big companies, it's just that it's hard to see why a large corporation with massive budgets can't add the multitude of features that these smaller electronics manufacturers can. You can't help but feel shafted when one of these major companies puts out a product with limited format support, basic/common features missing (the iPhone is very guilty of this), not enough storage space, etc etc.
I find these things fascinating in terms of what they're like to use and whether they've managed to come any where near the standard of the original...plus, some of them are just so silly it's hilarious. The knock-offs may lack originality but the one thing I do hope they do is encourage lazy manufacturers to give people a reason to keep coming back to their products for more than the name.
Let me respond to just a couple of your points (admitting that I was being a bit harsh in generalizing, knowing fully well that some of the posts were just attempting humor; but it was on purpose, since I have seen similar sentiments expressed way too many times on this forum, and rarely has someone taken the trouble to point out the other side of the argument):
1) You said: ".......No amount of fuming about intellectual property rights is going to stop these devices being made and I doubt the majority of Chinese people have to money to shell out for something as expensive as the iphone so it's hardly cannibalising Apple's sales......."
Response: The issue is not whether the Chinese can afford it; it is really about whether you and I, in the West can afford it, and cheer this on because of the few extra bucks that we are trying to save.
2) You said: ".... it's just that it's hard to see why a large corporation with massive budgets can't add the multitude of features that these smaller electronics manufacturers can. You can't help but feel shafted when one of these major companies puts out a product with limited format support, basic/common features missing (the iPhone is very guilty of this), not enough storage space, etc etc."
Response: You have absolutely no idea why some of these things might be missing from a large corporation's product. (And, your holier-than-thou reaction is typical.) Perhaps there were unresolved or expensive IP issues involved, I don't know. However, I can **confidently** tell you that some Chinese knock-off company -- one that gives a hoot whatsoever about any IP issues in the first place -- cares little about any one of the "multitude of features" it adds to anything. After knocking off the look, the feel, the interface, and (heck) even the tag-line of a product, do you seriously think this company worries about offering lots of knocked-off "format support" or whatever else?