What is the betting that Apple is going to use this font, which is available for free with a pack of Cheerios, for the next generation iPod?
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most blatant ipod copies
The iPhoney award.
There were enough iPhone and iPod rip offs, that we found when searching for general copies of Apple design, to warrant their own chart. To celebrate the announcement of the merging of the iPod and iPhone line up, here are the iPhoneys. Vote for the most blatant.
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The Aboss iPocket is another clone that falls into the - severely taking the piss category, by coming in exactly the same colors as the old Nano.
The company is affectionately called ‘Aboss’ after the way the pale skinny guy with the Zoot suit and spats, who sold iPockets on the street corner, used to holler after his boss from Jersey City.
This is our absolute personal favorite. The Shuffle made a feature of its lack of a screen - so this adds one back, thus destroying the whole point of the design.
For some unknown reason, some people seem to think that its unfair to call the Zune a rip off of the iPod.
The iPod is the shape of a packet of cigs, has a small screen and round control interface below it. It comes in colors including white.
The Zune is the shape of a packet of cigs, has a small screen and round control interface below it. It comes in colors including “shite”.
The Trix player is clearly also a rip off of the Zune, since it includes an FM radio. A revolutionary feature, obviously.
Rumor has it that although this iPhone copy looks like an iPhone and is called an iPhone, it performs about as well as a picture of an iPhone.
OK this is just about as blatant as you can get, but you have to admire just how damn quick people can be to stamp out a copy as close as this. The reviewer on the site linked to here says: “One thing many people will notice upon first glancing at the M8 is the similarity to the iPhone, both in terms of hardware and software aesthetics.”
Perfect understatement, but what about the build quality?.
Not since the Soviets built the Concordski has it been possible to copy something such that it loses all of its original grace and beauty.
The Mark 1 Shuffle is the one iPod that we wish people would copy. Ever since the update, which shaved less off the size than the thing you use to wind your headphone cords around, you have to remember where you left the charger.
The chewing gum packet Shuffle never had this problem, plugging straight into a USB port.
This is an iPod clone that sold well in the German market. Its battery lasts 27 years and it runs on bio-Diesel.
If this concept photo proves to be a genuine likeness of the production version, the Teclast T59 might be an iPhone copy that we actually like, since it proves to be more minimalist than the original.
