Can you tell the difference?
Upset that your iPad has been delayed? More of a Windows guy anyway? Wish that your shiny new tablet had USB ports when it did arrive?
China has the answer. Reuters are reporting that only 3 weeks after the much anticipated launch of Apple’s shiniest new iSomething, pirates have already reverse-engineered, rebuilt and released a knock-off that sports 3 USB ports, squarer design (possibly more like the iPhone 4G) and Windows support.
Sure it’s not the real-deal – and for only $100 in the difference I personally would be holding out for the original, were I in the market for an iPhone I couldn’t fit in my pocket or make calls on – but it does highlight how fast technology moves today. The iPad has been lauded as the game-changer in portable computing but even that can be challenged within weeks of coming to market.
I do find it amusing that even pirate technologists can’t bring themselves to release a tablet without USB ports. Maybe we’ll have the 3D-printer replaced by a 3D-photocopier sooner than we expect.
Introducing... the jPad?