Somebody is always cloning an Apple product. I guess Apple should take that as a compliment. Here’s a fake iPod Shuffle 3G that appears to be large enough to be an iPod nano. We aren’t sure what’s actually inside as it weighs just 14 grams.
Well, we do know that it has an integrated FM tuner with audio recording, a phone book, and an e-book reader. Which is quite a feat as it has no screen. If you want to know more, I suggest you drop the necessary $23 and try to use it with ebooks.
These manufacturers never learn.
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Most companies producing “clones” or “replicas”, especially in China were originally approached by Brand names to see if they can be potential manufacturing bases. Instead of being paid, they negotiate to get rights to the original the design (albeit without propriety features).
It is no surprise that some have purposely produced inferior products so that the Brand name doesn’t take them on and they can just function on their own. Nokia, Apple, ASUS, Lego to name a few have been “replicated” by Chinese companies but then again – Where are the genuine ones made? When an Apple iPod “clone” was released to the market a Techno mag editor sent countless messages to Apple to see what they thought of the issue. They wouldn’t answer his call.
Most Brand names won’t take action unless (as stated above) propriety features have been copied or the name is almost the same. A lot of companies are afraid that if they were to take any action they would suffer a serious backlash from any potential future manufacturing bases in China.
how the hell would an ebook carrier work in a screenless mp3 player??? does it talk or something? and audio recorder…so how do you record and play it back??? the original one…the one from apple is far better even if it lacks other features that the clones have like fm radio and stuff.