OK, so maybe the P88 and iPad don’t have that much in common. Or really, hardly anything. The P88 has a resistive screen, has a 250GB hard drive, an Ethernet port, a webcam and runs Windows. It also gets an hour and a half of battery life, and costs, um, $US525. Still! The intellectual property of Shenzhen Great Loong Brother will not be wrongly appropriated! At least, not if SGLB president Xiaolong Wu has anything to say about it:
We are considering legal action, but we can not do much in the United States. But if Apple brings the iPad to China, we will be forced to denounce them, because it will certainly affect our sales.
Keep considering, Xiaolong Wu. There’s a long line of Apple lawsuits ahead of you, some of which actually seem to have an iota of merit. [El Mundo via Wired]
Thomas
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 6:04 AMThey should take legal action, I have seen these tablets in China prior to the iPads releases (and prior to us even hearing about an iPad/ iSlate/ iTablet).
Pat
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:28 AMIs it just me or is there something profoundly wrong about the title of this article?
they’re an “iPad knockoff maker” who’s product has been on sale for 6 months BEFORE the ANNOUNCEMENT of the iPad?
Surely that makes the iPad the knockoff product?
Pauly Seven
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 12:37 PMPat – Fully agree. The title isn’t just wrong, but could be legally problematic.
Lyressa
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 3:26 AMI don’t mean to be controversial to the three previous comments, but how can the iPad be a knockoff of some other company, when the iPad is nothing more than a larger sized iPhone or iPod Touch…which has been out for years?