29.01.2010 12:50 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

Chinese firm engages in pre-emptive iPad clone attack

What’s a Chinese clone-maker to do when it hears whispers Apple’s busily reinventing the netbook category? Why - release a pre-emptive copycat strike, of course - and for that, hats-off to Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial CoDubbed the P88 and on sale in China for nearly six months, the touchscreen iPad look-alike (is like a giant iPhone) and marks a new milestone by Chinese manufacturers: cloning a product before it had even been announced, mused Shanghaiist.com, a Shanghai city blog, and Shanzhai.com, a tech blog dedicated to Chinese copies.Apple’s product came second, prompting an exec at the Chinese firm to say, "We don't understand. Why did they make the same thing as us?" The device was shown at Berlin’s IFA exhibition last year.There’s differences, of course:

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