Digitivity » IPR http://digitivity.org The Digital Productivity Blog Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Apple Stole iPad Design from a Chinese Company? http://digitivity.org/787/apple-stole-copied-ipad-design-from-a-chinese-company http://digitivity.org/787/apple-stole-copied-ipad-design-from-a-chinese-company#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:53:39 +0000 Digitivity http://digitivity.org/?p=787 Posted in Digital Devices

Plenty of American and other companies have claimed that Chinese companies have copied their designs. Now, a Chinese company is claiming that Apple stole the design for the iPad from it. Related posts:
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]]> Plenty of American and other companies have claimed that Chinese companies have copied their designs.

Now, a Chinese company is claiming that Apple stole the design for the iPad from it.

An electronics firm in Shenzen, China, has been selling tablet computer called the PC-P88 since last July. The company, Shenzhen Great Loong Industrial, says that they are talking to lawyers and readying a lawsuit against Apple.

The PC-P88

  • is a bit heavier than the iPad
  • has USB ports, unlike the iPad
  • runs Windows and supports Linux
  • has an ethernet port as well as WiFi
  • has a 160GB hard drive (unlike the Apple iPad)
  • has card reader
  • has only 1.5 hours battery time

Great Loong PC-P88

My comments

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Apple is famous for claiming that others have copied its designs, and for filing lawsuits.

Even so, there were plenty of tablet computers before the iPad and also before the PC-P88 (like the Microsoft Tablet PC), so I don’t think Great Loong’s lawsuit could end up being anything other than a PR boost.

Resources

NY Times article
PC-P88 website

Related posts:

  1. Apple Reveals the iPad Tablet: A Coverage Roundup
  2. Prior Art for the iPad: From 1994
  3. Top 5 Productivity Tools for the Apple iPad

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