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Chinese Company Hyperdon Sold Fake Apple Watches at CES
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What amazed me is that how these chinese companies makes this products almost the same in every aspect from inside out. After they talked about the Blu Vivo Air the thinnest smartphone in the world at CES. I decided to do a little bit of research about how they make this phone so thin, and found one in youtube under a different brand. My point is Apple in it's advertising techniques they makes thing convincing, that they went through a lot of struggles to come up with their device. Countless prototypes and engineering struggles and battles between the design team and hardware engineers. Then here's a never heard small company selling their beautiful product in Amazon. It may not as pretty as the iPhones but my point is the internals of those devices seems like pre-made. My assumption is all Apple does is to slap the outer layer nice looking design. I'm not saying it's easy but the technology behind is actually widely available that what we imagined. When Apple sued Samsung we don't hear so much the internal hardware part. The only talked about the outer layer of the phone and of course the OS design. The whole point of this or maybe just me, I'm not downplaying Apple's innovativeness. When I watch their keynote commercials which we are not supposed to believe commercial ads anyway. They sound like making their product is not easy and it cost them so much money on their R&D, to justify their pricing. Even some android phones are still expensive. But what disappointing is that since this technology is widely available already. I don't see any justification that 16GB & 1 gig RAM should be the base model of the iPads and iPhones. So as the pricing of their devices, although some of you may I have a choice. Which is a good thing and for a while I will be staying on the Apple side.
I tend to loose watches (take them off and leave them somewhere, etc.).
It is easier to loose $27 than $400...
I actually want one of these...
It is easier to loose $27 than $400...
I actually want one of these...
And this is also compounded by the prevailing salary in the nation the research in conducted.
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Mail, Calendar and Safari are the Apps I use most, and all come with it. Fit with my Apple ecosystem. Nothing to do with Status.
Ripping off someone else's design means they didn't pay for research, design, marketing, or anything else. Don't post again until you understand how business works.
Do you know what Apple had to pay for the R&D of the watch?
Now, what would be absolutely hysterical, is if the Apple Watch they showed us isn't even the real deal. The last time there was a delay this long in a product Apple showed off, it was the original iPhone. Since then, they have been released very soon after public release.
No the customers do.
Apple in reality pays nothing. They just use money customers have given them in the past as profit for Apple to pay people to design new product with customers money so they can sell more items to the customers and take more profit for them.
Tim and others are not taking money from their bank account to fund this you know.
I'd love the Apple watch we have been show to be a fake.
In years to come I'm sure it will be known as the "Old Fatty"
And that's the point, I do wonder how many will be sucked in and buy one. Only good thing is they are so cheap it's not a huge loss.
I remember years ago buying what I thought was an iPod shuffle on eBay, turned out to be a cheap heap of crap that never worked properly.
What reality do you exist in where the money you exchange for a product remains your money?
Does China actually make anything useful other than fakes, copies, or rebrands? Everytime there is a fake something going around in any industry it's from China.
Great country they got over there. So happy that the U.S. companies slob their knob so badly. Terrific.
Great country they got over there. So happy that the U.S. companies slob their knob so badly. Terrific.
The thread title says they "sold Fake Apple Watches", which makes it sound like Hyperdon was trying to pass it off as an Apple Watch. But they weren't. This was their booth sign:
Btw, its crown is just a push button, and doesn't rotate.
It only has a handful of simple Bluetooth control apps.
The default homescreen is apparently a digital clock. I wonder if the Apple-like gaggle of icons or butterfly aren't just like a screensaver image. Remember how everyone was using the clownfish image after the first iPhone was shown off?
The four dots on the back are not sensors... they're where the charger cradle connects.
Last year I paid about $75 for a Chinese watch, with more features and the ability to run Android apps. So I'd say that $30-$40 was about right for something like this, which is far more simple and doesn't have a known OS.
Btw, its crown is just a push button, and doesn't rotate.
It only has a handful of simple Bluetooth control apps.
The default homescreen is apparently a digital clock. I wonder if the Apple-like gaggle of icons or butterfly aren't just like a screensaver image. Remember how everyone was using the clownfish image after the first iPhone was shown off?
The four dots on the back are not sensors... they're where the charger cradle connects.
Last year I paid about $75 for a Chinese watch, with more features and the ability to run Android apps. So I'd say that $30-$40 was about right for something like this, which is far more simple and doesn't have a known OS.
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Does China actually make anything useful other than fakes, copies, or rebrands? Everytime there is a fake something going around in any industry it's from China.
Great country they got over there. So happy that the U.S. companies slob their knob so badly. Terrific.
well they make those iphones for cheap and keep Apple profit margins high with the combo of low labor/manufacturing costs and high prices, so you should be happy ...
Does China actually make anything useful other than fakes, copies, or rebrands? Everytime there is a fake something going around in any industry it's from China.
Great country they got over there. So happy that the U.S. companies slob their knob so badly. Terrific.
well they make those iphones for cheap and keep Apple profit margins high with the combo of low labor/manufacturing costs and high prices, so you should be happy ...
No human right by the way.
except there's nothing smart about Nano.
Maybe next time you will tell me ipod touch also since you can buy an armband?
I get it kingofwale you don't like the Apple Watch, Nano, iPod Touch, etc. So why post here? You're not offering critical feedback on the Apple Watch. It's not even out yet.
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In a funny kind of way this badly done Apple Watch wannabe replica fake is giving the real watch extra advertising, just by people seeing this at a high profile event and mistaking it for the real thing, or at least thinking about seeing a similar device that is made to look like the Apple Watch.
The tech people buying one are sure to tell every one in their blogs and websites how this device looks like the Apple smart watch, but acts like a dumb watch.
This Hyperdon company is about as smart as their dumb watch.
The tech people buying one are sure to tell every one in their blogs and websites how this device looks like the Apple smart watch, but acts like a dumb watch.
This Hyperdon company is about as smart as their dumb watch.
well they make those iphones for cheap and keep Apple profit margins high with the combo of low labor/manufacturing costs and high prices, so you should be happy ...
I don't own an iPhone but I do own an iPad. Sure, I'm part of the problem for buying one I guess. But, itd be nice to get those jobs back here. Oh well. Never gonna happen when the #1 concern these days is pleasing obnoxious shareholders.
I tend to loose watches (take them off and leave them somewhere, etc.).
It is easier to loose $27 than $400...
I actually want one of these...
This one's so bad maybe you'll lose it on purpose. You want one which does just about nothing useful and is made of material guaranteed to last 2 weeks (probably when the battery dies...).
