July 2011
Family ties earn this Smart Cover knock-off a Samsung certification and a place on their store shelves
(via)Apple is suing “the copyist” Samsung because they “imitate the appearance of Apple’s products to capitalize on Apple’s success”. Be that as it may, the similarities between the two tech giant’s gadgets are nothing compared to what other Asian knockoffs are doing for a living. Like Anymode Corp., which is in the business of designing, manufacturing and selling a blatant Smart Cover rip-off, pictured above and below.
Chinese manufacturers reportedly using Apple-rejected displays for iPad clones
(via)Asian industry sources have suggested that second-grade touch panels that don’t pass Apple’s quality standards for the iPad 2 are making their way into Chinese “white-box” iPad clones, according to a new report.
May 2010
Apple sells 2 million iPads in less than 60 days
(via)(CNET) — Apple says that it has sold more than 2 million iPads since the device debuted April 3rd.
It’s safe to assume that the vast majority of those sales came from the U.S. market, as the iPad only just went on sale last weekend in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.K. Apple didn’t say how many iPads were sold internationally.
April 2010
Woz Accidentally Gets Apple Engineer Fired For Showing iPad
(via)Here’s a interesting story about secrecy and making mistakes at Apple. The story is told by Woz, Apple employee number one (check out his hilarious shirt).
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