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Huawei's New MateBook Fold Could Be Mistaken for Apple's Rumored Foldable iPad
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It is sad to read nonsense! Huawei are competing with Lenovo and others who have already released such devices long before there were serious rumours about any folding device from Apple. Nobody develops a product because of an Apple rumour. It is the other way around: Apple spreads such rumours to link coming innovations from others with their own name. This has been Apple's standard operations procedure for years.
When was the last time Apple offered a mainline (i.e. core) product (not an accessory or service) with a unique design that was exclusive to a certain region/market? AirPods with custom engraving for Lunar New Year doesn't count.
I know Apple offers products with different feature sets for different regions such as iPhones outside of the U.S. still having a physical SIM card tray, but I cannot recall Apple ever offering a custom designed product.
Thats the spirit Apple wants to see from its users. Give me macOS, or don't, maybe just advanced iPadOS.
I believe the implication isn't that Chinese companies are just following MacRumors, but rather that given that Chinese is notoriously leaky from a production standpoint given how so much of everyone's tech runs through there, that they can knock off unreleased Apple products or prototypes if Apple was producing parts or all of them overseas. Given that components from the phones leak years before they arrive in shipping products it's not hard to believe.
Or, to put another way: if they weren't trying to invite that comparison why would they wholesale rip off Apple's look and feel in every other respect?
(Also China is well-known for being filled with people who will churn out a knockoff or copycat version of basically any product on ridiculously fast production timescales, so the timing isn't really evidence they didn't, either.)
So what are they copying here exactly?
Maybe it’s the $3300 price tag…. That can definitely be confused for an apple priced product
I would be tempted to try one of these if it wasn’t so crazily expensive (and not available here)
Or maybe they were working on this long before Apple
Unless you have some evidence pointing otherwise?
So they copied a non-existent product? How does that work? You stick a blank sheet into a copier, push the copy button and out comes Tom Sawyer?
The US has a vast prison labor pool. But all we use it for is to the stamp out license plates and break rocks.😑
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It's worth mentioning that Huawei released today its own operating system: HarmonyOS PC.
No one will mistake it for an Apple product because Apple isn’t that innovative.
Looks very cool. But I wouldn't know when or how to use that. You prop it up and carry a keyboard in your bag? Fold it open and have a massive tablet on your lap? Use in 'laptop mode' with a virtual keyboard? Kind of unwieldly... but I would love to play with it
Not sure how you’re confused about this. It’s a copy of a product that’s still in development stage. Just because the product isn’t on the shelves doesn’t mean someone can’t copy it. China is very good at industrial espionage. They use that along with their skilled manufacturing to clone products.
That’s because people in the USA would protest if we actually had prisoners do forced labor. We all know how China handles protests. It’s not recommended to do in China.
Huawei products are not permitted to be sold in the USA. You could probably get gray market imports, but there are no legal shipments to the USA. I feel it’s kind of a shame because they make pretty good products. I’ll call them out for copying whoever but that doesn’t mean the product is bad. Their quality is fairly good.
I recommend checking out existing products from Lenovo, Asus and HP. And these are not first-gen devices. How can Apple fans miss all of that?Looks very cool. But I wouldn't know when or how to use that. You prop it up and carry a keyboard in your bag? Fold it open and have a massive tablet on your lap? Use in 'laptop mode' with a virtual keyboard? Kind of unwieldly... but I would love to play with it
I’m sure if there was any R&D they could get ahold of, they did. I know you’re trying to be funny, but industrial espionage is a real thing and China is a major player in that field.
They can make more money leaking that information to Kuo or Prosser or whomever.
Right now, the Apple folding iPad is little more than rumors. The technology is more likely developed by companies that already have a folding tablet/phone like Samsung or some Chinese manufacturer.The only thing that looks copied from Apple is the curved design that is old, iPhone 6 old.
You mean if the public knew about prison slave labor. They're paid less than $1 an hour and they price gouged. This the practice old coal mines used to keep their labor pool indebted for life.
I wouldn't recommend protesting with the current administration, especially if you're black or brown.
