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Parallel Universe Shenzhen: Where The iPads Run on Android

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The market penetration of Google's Android mobile operating system has reached the second place, after Nokia's Symbian and in front of Apple's iOS. It would be unheard of in this stadium that Apple would strike a deal with Google to make a variation of iPad that would run on Google's Android operating system. You are not going to use your competitor's operating system if you are trying to dominate the market for operating systems yourself. However, copycats are not hindered by the realities of the manufacturers of the genuine products. So the unthinkable becomes thinkable in this parallel universe of cloning:

Neo of Shanzhai reports that the second generation iPad inspired device in that parallel universe for clones, copycats and counterfeiters Shenzhen will be manufactured with Google's Android 2.2 operating system.

By the way in this case the Apple logo was not used on the clone. Design patents and copyright, and even trademark (for the use of the name iPad or when the form was registered as trademark) could be infringed.

Read the Shanzhai article with pictures of genuine and clone for that parlour game: find the differences here.

The picture (Danny Friedmann) shows that Androids have landed on Shenzhen's beach.

Full post as published by IP Dragon on December 18, 2010 (boomark / email).