So a Chinese company steals just enough visual cues to make it look like an iPhone and remain legal, patents those minute differences, then sues the company it stole from initially for looking too much like its own product?
Hi, we're China...we make up rules as we go along!
What a joke. Agree with the poster who said Apple should move their manufacturing out of China.
When you manufacture anything over there (or India for that matter), you're basically providing most of the work needed to allow your IP to get ganked.
It's just a cultural thing. When you have an ancient civilization with over a billion people that all display visual homogeny, live in a collective and have relatively little individualism, it's no wonder creative IP and the work of others outside of such an environment carries any value.
It's time for Apple to leave China. This is a game the Chinese know very well. You can't even verify the dates of the Chinese product patents, because it's closely government controlled, and apple is an outside American company.
What a ridiculous situation. Obviously Apple needs to find a new legal team to deploy in China. Someone dropped the ball. There are many visual differences between that Chinese product and Apples. Nobody would mistake the two.
This may make me buy the PowerMac just because it is assembled in the US. I think Apple needs to transition out of China as much as possible. The PowerMac is a good start. It won't happen overnight and for gosh sakes don't manufacture in CA, too many restrictions.
PowerMac? You can buy my old PowerMac G5 made in 2003. I think you mean Mac Pro.
Not to mention these guys could have gotten ahold of early iP6 schematics, cranked out a plastic copy and "beat" them to market. Not that hard.
They "copied" the schematics and somehow it doesn't really look the same... Man, they're that bad...
True, It doesn't have antenna bands, they moved the flash, put speaker out back and the side buttons are slightly different. Overall form though... c'mon man.
You know exactly what he's trying to say, so what's the difference how he says it?
Well, the difference in how one says what one means is kind of the essence of language, isn't it? I'm always amazed that people who perfectly understand the need for precision in code pay no attention to it in real world communications, where it pays similar dividends.
Exactly. "It's just semantics" should be a red flag to look out for, at best, ignorance or, worse, attempts at deliberate deception.
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So a Chinese company steals just enough visual cues to make it look like an iPhone and remain legal, patents those minute differences, then sues the company it stole from initially for looking too much like its own product?
Classic.
It's just a cultural thing. When you have an ancient civilization with over a billion people that all display visual homogeny, live in a collective and have relatively little individualism, it's no wonder creative IP and the work of others outside of such an environment carries any value.
If they want respect, they should respect other people's IP.
I've got a 6s right now in my hand and they're so god damn different its not even funny; this basically bullshit.
They'll work to try to control apple's products.
They need to get out, before it's too late.
Exactly. "It's just semantics" should be a red flag to look out for, at best, ignorance or, worse, attempts at deliberate deception.