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iPod Shuffle Clone from Taiwan. ⇒

   10 March 2005, late afternoon

I expect these guys are going to get sued.

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  1. haha, that’s crazy… even their marketing (i.e. the silhouette) is cloned :S

    they’re asking for it :P

    by matt on March 10 2005, 6:23 pm   #

  2. See the second photo in this post.

    Apple doesn’t have a monopoly or precedence in tampon look-alike form factor.

    But this Taiwanese clone has added couple of useful features, so I will let them slide. Rest assured, Apple won’t.

    by Sunny on March 10 2005, 6:46 pm   #

  3. I don’t think Apple is the only company out there allowed to make things shaped like thumb drives, but this is a pretty blatant rip-off. The controls are identical, both on the front and back of the device. And it’s called the Super Shuffle. And the advertising is identical. Mind you, it apparently has more features. I wonder if it works with iTunes.

    by ramanan on March 10 2005, 7:06 pm   #

  4. Yeah, I know..it looks the same. If they called themselves resellers (standard Shufle with extra features), they would prolly be legit. This way, they are just begging to be sued. And they are taking it to one of biggest tech shows out there. The logic behind this is completely outrageous.

    by Sunny on March 10 2005, 7:44 pm   #

  5. Actually, no. Calling themselves resellers wouldn’t be legit either, since they’re not buying it from Apple and reselling it.

    by Robert on March 11 2005, 1:18 am   #

  6. No, what I meant is buying it, adding the features, and selling it would prolly be legit. They are not doing any of that. So basically they are begging to be sued.

    Is this for real though? Any possibility of this being a fake? They can’t possibly be this moronic?

    by Sunny on March 11 2005, 2:27 am   #

  7. Here are some follow-up links to this story: iPodLounge, Gizmodo.

    by ramanan on March 14 2005, 12:04 pm   #

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