http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
acer @ 2oni.com ]]>Sep 12th 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
This was documented in Popular Mechanics Magazine (or was it Popular Science Magazine?) in mid-2007. I can't recall the issue, but the article was pretty fascinating. One of the car manufacturers was astounded that the clone version of his company's car was entirely interchangeable (and cheaper, and thus more popular) than their own. They said you could replace almost any part on the real car with a part from the clone car, and the reason for that is because the pirates not only clone the cars, but they clone the factories that make the cars, and work out deal with the same raw materials suppliers.

China's counterfeit industry is quite amazing. We have nothing like it in America.

So acer wasn't taking a swipe at the iPod. He was merely pointing out that in all likelihood, the counterfeiters used similar, if not the exact same equipment to make their product, and that they likely stole some plans for this form factor long before it was in production.

The guts are certainly not identical, and the interface is nothing like an iPod, but the basic clone components are there.]]>Sep 12th 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
This will allow the counterfeiters to keep on churning copies, but have part of that money funnel bck to the parent company that created the original and still allow local workers in all countries to keep their jobs. No worry about moving production to another country or worrying about loosing money.

Everybody wins....hey. I just solved macro economic issues......!!!! ]]>Sep 12th 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
Did you stop your parents from meeting each other, you're fading :D]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 27th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
I am surprised no one has copied the iPhone 3G yet!]]>Sep 12th 2008 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
Sounds horrible. Maybe Apple's version of this player isn't so bad after all.]]>Sep 12th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
I didn't really care. It was cheap as dirt, and not long after I bought it, the guy was kicked off of eBay.]]>Sep 12th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
I said before: it looks like one of those cheap knockoff MP3 players.



God I, didn't was Psychic! ;-)]]>Sep 12th 2008 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
Meant to say "God, I didn't know I was Psychic!!"

Which doesn't quite work either....]]>Sep 12th 2008 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 13th 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
"The netizen said that the official announcement of the new Apple (fourth generation) iPodnano on the screen in order to intensify the idea of horizontal video player and built-in microphone (or horn) is designed so that he feels familiar"

....see engadget, u should change ur style of reporting things]]>Sep 12th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
To criticize the Chinese people who are dog feces
]]>Sep 12th 2008 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
This is not new. And usually something is copied because it is cheaper and then you just need to improve one thing here or another one there.

It is a shame that such a big company like Apple do this, but hey, this is not new right. ]]>Sep 12th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/

Oh wait, that was Sergio Mendes.]]>Sep 12th 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/]]>Sep 12th 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
But, at least engadget are publicising something which is going against the Apple loving, enjoy it while it lasts, soon the Engadget Apple love will be back!]]>Sep 12th 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://lady.163.com/08/0911/11/4LIBHUGN00261PDH.html&usg=ALkJrhiII0U0-p1Tuf5uVetCmYG3DpzJZg]]>Sep 12th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/
When the 2G nano came out, so did this long screen "MP4" video playing music device.]]>Sep 12th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/Sep 12th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/keepin-it-real-fake-cxl-cottage-mp3-player-apes-ipod-nano-4g/I'm surprised no one mentioned this:


These don't look much like the NEW iPod Nano at all. wrong screen dimensions, flat face, etc.


What they look like are the OLD/original iPod Mini's. Which predate 2007 by quite a bit.

Maybe Engadget needs to do better research.
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