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- techresearcher, on 02/15/2008, -1/+47Where can I get one of these stolen "Schematics" ?
- shiftt, on 02/15/2008, -1/+40Buried as blog spam.
The real story is here http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032 ... - likwidfuzion, on 02/15/2008, -1/+19This new chiPhone will go great with my Vouis Luitton wallet.
- ophello, on 02/15/2008, -1/+17***** your blogspam.
Heres the actual story:
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032 ... - RegalGSX, on 02/15/2008, -5/+19Chinese = steal
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -1/+15can you get lead poisoning from chinese iPhones?
- Thex1138, on 02/15/2008, -4/+14No surprises really...just another episode in the long line of 'West-Create East-Duplicate'
- malechite, on 02/15/2008, -0/+9We intercepted no transmissions! *choking* Were on a diplomatic mission
- Patrikc325, on 02/15/2008, -2/+11We are awakening to the new cold war!!
- d0onut, on 02/15/2008, -2/+11What the hell is the gray market?
- TremorX, on 02/15/2008, -0/+9Where are the transmissions you intercepted? What did you do with those plans!?
- PPCG4, on 02/15/2008, -2/+11The sad thing is, people who work in that factory (some of them anyway) will endure horrific torture until either someone gives a false confession out of pain, or someone confesses out of shame.
- decepticrat, on 02/15/2008, -0/+8Please don't support link-jacking. Read the story from the original source here.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032 ... - bxblox, on 02/15/2008, -1/+8chinatown, theyre printed with lead ink
- al1encas1no, on 02/15/2008, -2/+8YES we'll get some good iPhone knockoffs now
- sajnikanth, on 02/15/2008, -0/+6Ahem...check this out http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_cb00XMTgwMDA2MzI=.htm ...
- netdroid9, on 02/15/2008, -0/+6Alright, you win, I've hidden it in one of these 21 briefcases. *Que quiz-show music*
- rot13ubercrypto, on 02/15/2008, -1/+7I'm sure the schematics were "stolen." As in "pushed...er...fell off the back of a truck and caught on the third bounce." Authorized manufacturers in a lot of Asian countries paying licensing fees to produce, or being contracted to manufacture a given quantity of a certain good (clothes, CDs, electronics, etc.) and cranking out a couple of units more which they then dump on the black market at dirt cheap prices is not a new phaenomenon.
These things aren't even "pirated" -- they're the real thing, just sold outside the pricing and marketing scheme of the original brand owner. I expect to see "real" iPhones showing up on markets in Malaysia for $30 a pop not too long from now... - Emachine, on 02/15/2008, -0/+6... and the next day, the streets of China are flooded with new speciously familiar looking eyePhones and miiPhones.
- sporg, on 02/15/2008, -1/+7Serves them right for having stuff made in China's slave factories.
- philhatesyou, on 02/15/2008, -0/+5"can't trust those nips"
You know you're dumb when you can't even be a proper racist. - theradical, on 02/15/2008, -0/+5now we are digging unknown websites with literally five line blurbs of unsubstantiated nonsense with comments as follows:
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Anonymous said...
cant trust those nips....
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008 9:52:00 PM
Anonymous said...
It was bound to happen, wasn't it?
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008 10:09:00 PM
Anonymous said...
naggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So I would just like to know, are we the problem or is the internet the problem? - anonypanda, on 02/15/2008, -1/+6This is not news to anyone who lives in China. I've been here for near 15 years now and I can definitely vouch for this being true. Its true with other products as well, some of the markets you go to here in Beijing don't sell bootlegged stuff, but instead just "over production" and stolen stuff.
Basically it works like this:
lets say Nike orders 1000 sneakers made by their chinese subcontractor. Subcontractor makes 1100. Gives 1000 to Nike, factory owner keeps 100 and puts them onto the local markets and keeps the cash. They add the cost of the additional sneakers into the cost of building the 1000 Nike asked for OR (as was the case with our company) report more defective ones than is true. - ZiggityZhang, on 02/15/2008, -0/+5More like East-Create East-Duplicate. Most Chinese counterfeits come from the SAME factory.
- skunkworker, on 02/15/2008, -1/+5What just a picture?
- likwidfuzion, on 02/15/2008, -0/+4This is China we're talking about here. It's the motherland of bootlegs and knockoffs.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -1/+5Dear Chinese, people make it exactly the same, but add a micro sd slot, flash support and 3g, thanks. And some stereo bluetooth would be nice.
- TheSkinsFactory, on 02/15/2008, -0/+4that made me laugh
- Tenlow, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3You have to click through the blogspam.
- Flame500, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3I'm not sure if I totally believe this, my father was in the micro-electronics business for 23 years and he told me that when everything was being moved to china that they always took ludicrous security precautions. Things like razor wire fences, massive hydraulic gates, and every mission critical document and schematic was ENCRYPTED so only the machines could read them. This (if true) is really a worst case scenario.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3Is that a fact?
- barroni, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3Will the knock off be called iFone ?
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2What's with the block capitals used in 'some gray-market iPhones for sale in China may have been STOLEN FROM THE CHINESE FACTORY?' Is this blogger so obsessed with CHINA that he has to say CHINESE twice in the same sentence and freak out like iPhones are only STOLEN from CHINESE FACTORIES?
- NSResponder, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2The schematic is actually a pretty minor thing to lose. To duplicate the iPhone, the hard part is coming up with the firmware that makes it compatible with OS X and the iPhone apps.
-jcr - makerandcreator, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Of course.
- TremorX, on 02/15/2008, -3/+5I only hope that when the data's analyzed a weakness can be found. It's not over yet.
- techresearcher, on 02/16/2008, -0/+2***** your comment jacking.
- willgonz, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Everyone knows the iPhones are made at Area 51.
- TheSnuffster, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Yeh I reckon so, and don't call me Shirley.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2So far zune made quiet entrance, but has eaten up alot of the market and is in hot persuit.
Most every review gives Zune a better rating than the comparable ipod.
So not sure how that is ***** up ? - chaseywacy, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2The flow of new goods through distribution channels other than those authorized or intended by the manufacturer or producer. The iPhone is officially on sale only in the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany, where Apple has signed exclusive contracts with cellular carriers.
- cr0m, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2thaiphone
- tmessing, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Pirate Bay, arrrg!
- Hangly, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2More specifically, Apple is still in talks with Chinese telecoms to work out some sort of vendor-lock scheme. In the meantime, some Chinese hacker rigged the iPhone so it can take a SIM card, meaning you can use whatever carrier you want. That's pretty heroic, from a hacker perspective.
- shanemichael, on 02/15/2008, -1/+3Wow.. this story is really credible.. or... not. Nice picture, it provides both the entire story and detail, as well as adequate proof. Wait, no.. no it doesn't.
- mikenotmike, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2And a removable battery....
- GruntboyX, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Big deal. A good engineer with a ohm meter can reverse engineer schematics pretty well. You still need the blue prints to the custom asics that are all in the device. This is what is most important
- CaviMike, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Well that's what you get for farming out your work to other countries. No sympathy from me.
- zodieman, on 02/15/2008, -0/+2Schematics, or it didn't happen...
- CaviMike, on 02/15/2008, -1/+3Wow, I read that as Louis Vuitton and couldn't figure out what was so funny. I fail.
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