Chinese Company Hyperdon Sold Fake Apple Watches at CES

[nikaru]

Remember folks, this company is also copying Samsung and other brands of phones.

I hope you are equally upset they are copying these other products?

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What do you feel about Kit Cars ?

Where you purchase a basic chassis from another car complete with engine etc, then you buy the Fibreglass kit, and with a lot of time and skill you end up with something that looks not a million miles away from a well known supercar but for a fraction of the cost?

There are many Kit Car companies.

Should they all be banned?

Yes, if these Kit Cars are replicas of currently manfucatured vehicles. If these Kit Cars are retro vehicles replicas that are no longer manufactured, and therefore, there is no profit stealing from the original manufacturer, then it is OK.

 

[nidhish1]

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hahaha its funny .But then again what else can you expect ..Chinese market is filled with copycats like them .

 

[Shlooky]

The only way counterfeit will stop is when companies like Apple stop making them in China.
Bring it all in-house.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

The only way counterfeit will stop is when companies like Apple stop making them in China.
Bring it all in-house.

That won't stop china from stealing, it seems that the west wants them to steal and play unfair.

 

[APlotdevice]

The only way counterfeit will stop is when companies like Apple stop making them in China.
Bring it all in-house.

That won't stop them. Especially not really cheap knockoffs like this, which was likely based on nothing more than the press photos.

 

[grahamperrin]

Patents

… Apple can't go after these China companies copying their design.

I wonder which aspects of the designs are, or will be, patented.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/apple-watch/

 

[Dimsum114]

I wonder if they will try to sue Apple when the watch explodes on their arm.

 

[JCrz]

Do you really think apple really thought this smart watch thing out?? They threw something together to try to compete with other smart watches and slapped a pretty shiny cover on it. At this point, other smart watches have already been on the market for at least a year now. Apple is the copy cat now.

Apple started designing their watch years ago. Companies don't just see someone else's product and copy it in a few months. You obviously don't understand how business works.

 

[grahamperrin]

Years ago …

Apple started designing their watch years ago. …

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19620162#post19620162

 

[JCrz]

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19633780#post19633780

That forum post contains no information about dates.

 

[grahamperrin]

1. That forum post contains no information about dates. …

Sorry, I linked to the wrong page of the topic. Thanks for drawing attention to the mistake. I have corrected the link.

 

[JCrz]

Sorry, I linked to the wrong page of the topic. Thanks for drawing attention to the mistake. I have corrected the link.

Thanks for correcting the link.

Yes, that interview with Cook tells us that they started working on the Apple Watch years ago (Jobs died in 2011).

 

[fmaxwell]

You making an argumentum ad populum fallacy doesn't make me incorrect

Your misrepresentation of my argument is what makes you incorrect. I did not state that the 'up-votes' for his post meant that it was correct. I stated that the post was correct and others recognized that.

, and doesn't make either you or the other poster less ignorant about basic economics.

My understanding of economics dwarfs yours. You obviously know nothing about the costs of designing, prototyping, testing, and marketing. This look-alike product can't actually do what an actual iWatch can. That's not economics -- that's engineering.