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Chinese ODM unveils Switch-like gaming tablet with removable controllers
- Thread starter MJPIA
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you've got to love the irony of the post shitting on China because they copied something that was made in.....China..
plus communist countries don't have copyright laws and everything belongs to the 'people'
to be honest i'm surprised it's taken this long to turn up.. I mean how long before we get our first iphone X clone?
plus communist countries don't have copyright laws and everything belongs to the 'people'
to be honest i'm surprised it's taken this long to turn up.. I mean how long before we get our first iphone X clone?
It's basically just a W10 tablet though.
What makes the Switch great is the software library. Also there doesn't seem to be a dock. (There's a mini-HDMI on the unit though.)
What makes the Switch great is the software library. Also there doesn't seem to be a dock. (There's a mini-HDMI on the unit though.)
Those are some really good points. The more I thought about it, I realize that very little is original or innovative when it comes to consumer electronics these days.
I get your point, and it obviously usually pays off financially, but it being done by many others doesn't make it any better. My biggest issue with this behaviour is that they're just copying, often making a lower quality clone. That's not just taking inspiration then adding your own new technology which can be very beneficial to society as the Apple/Samsung phones rivalry has been(reciprocal), that's just offering the same product at best, in my opinion. In the long run this is a detrimental approach for the technical evolution.
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Gotta wait for some company to make a bulk order and rebrand and sell them.
I'm not positive but I think someone contacted them and they do minimum orders of a 1000 units for $300 each so once its rebadged and sold to the public it'll be even more.
Woo group buy time!
Eh, a GPD Win seems like it would be a much better buy unless people really really want the exact Switch form factor.
Because it's infinitely cheaper to copy a design that's tried and true and that others have spent the money on R&D instead. This only happens in China because their copyright laws are horrendous. I can guarantee you it'd happen anywhere else if they had similar laws.
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Well yeah but we could organize a group buy and have our own resetera console and then on the back we'll write "This does what Nintendo't".
Can't do that with the Win.
It'll be great and then we'll set all sorts of world speed records for Nintendo's lawyers.
Wow the youtube comments "look at wikipad, nintendo copied them", "this could threaten the Switch, PC has more games than any console ever made"
"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - steve jobs. but i get it, my opinion is that idea theft is ok, as long as you make it better and innovate further. i think china just misses the second point.
Agreed, that's how we thrive as a community.
I always wonder how much more difficult it would be if these companies didn't go to China for manufacturing and produced their stuff in a country that had better laws that protect against this kind of stuff. Also, do they get these clones the way they are because employees steal the "blueprints" and go and make their own? Or do they reverse engineer / wing it?
its pretty obvious that companies see a financial benefit to manufacturing a product in china. the upside is better than the downside so far. i'm sure once the copycats eat into profits they'll care. or if the products are introduced into their domestic markets, which i doubt since they can sue on their home turf then. i think as long as the copycats are contained in china or are so far down market, manufactures won't care, heck it would probably cost more to sue a low end copy than to just let the copy die on its own. also, they probably reverse engineer or get leaked certain parts and processes.
China's expertise is in manufacturing, in fact hardly much of the developed world can compete. If you want to talk about innovation, China's is in production and assembly lines, materials, logistics, reduction of cost, monetary policies. That's why the products we get are still as cheap as they are now versus 20 years ago.
What we give up though is that all the money goes to China.
As for the 'idea' theft, well I'm sure they care when they are sitting in their Mercedes or Ferrari and flying first class.
It's not really a problem unless another company make the exact thing and that's why these things are usually pitched at a lower price point.
They can definitely reverse engineer it. Sometimes though in the case of things like iPhone cases where they have to be exact, they probably 'pay' somebody at the factory to leak it.
I don't think anyone cares about these cheap china copies. There has been bad copies of almost any successful electronic device from chinese manufacturers, but who would buy such things? There are good for a laugh and a shrug, before people forget about them.
Before seeing the pics I was like "yeah, there were controller add-ons for tablets before the switch...probably it's one of those", but damn. This is a blatant ripp-off.
Reminds me of these:
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They do. A few years back, Huawei had more patents than Ericsson, a company founded in 1876. So China is not just about copying others, even though stuff like this gets a lot of attention, obviously.
