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Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China
An anonymous reader writes "Just when you thought the Apple knockoff trade in China couldn't get any more ridiculous, Chinese Police recently seized 681 "Apple iPhone" branded gas stoves in the city of Wuhan. Yep, that's right, some folks are peddling gas grills and are trying to made the product more appealing by stamping an Apple logo alongside the 'iPhone' moniker on the front."
Cooking dinner? There's an app for that.
Now, see, a native gas grill attachment included with the phone MIGHT make me want to buy an iPhone.
and an Apple Care plan to cover them when (I mean if) they break. I shall be king of the hipsters with an Apple iStove! Now if only I had some iGas to power it....
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Apple products are really hot in China.
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"trying to made the product"
I would have thought that the iPhone accessories market could easily accommodate this. But a revision of RFC 2324 for a broader set of appliances would be in order for that to happen.
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Did it really work to increase sales of a gas stove? Would sticking an apple logo on something just automatically increase sales in China?
That these days you can just stick an Apple logo on something and the drones will buy it.
Did anyone see the alleged iPhone 5 prototype images last week? Someone on Facebook posted them and people were going apeshit, saying how great it looked and how much they wanted one. It was completely impracticable to use, but that didn't matter because it was the new iPhone.
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"We're sorry, the food you are trying to cook is not compatible with this stove. Please obtain compatible food from your local Apple supermarket."
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Look closely at the picture. That is a patented Apple device! How can you tell? The corners are rounded.
Silence is a state of mime.
Consider the poor SOB's who bought the genuine Windows ovens instead.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Whilst Apple and iPhone are no doubt trademarks in the computing and phone business, if they have not registered their intention to enter the gas stove market then surely it is legitimate as trademarks are limited to the product area you're involved in.
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There's a chain of "Apple" hair salons here in Dongguan. (The ones that actually do your hair.) Also see tons of "Apple" merchandise every day, from slippers to underwear to bumperstickers.
Since when does Apple have a trademark on the use of "iPhone" for a gas grill?
That is not how one fries a motherboard.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
I've heard of iPhone batteries causing fires, but marketing that as a feature is just ridiculous.
Seriously, I don't really have anything to add to the subject line.
The only thing surprising to me about this is that the Chinese police actually cares about it.
The were labelled "iPhone" with the Apple logo. The police were only called when several unsuspecting consumers reported getting sever burns on their ears when attempting to make a call. One person lost an index finger just trying to dial police.
You used to see a lot of buildings and cars in the US with Apple logos on them. Plainly most of the cars were VWs or some other foreign make. They didn't fool anybody purchasing used cars from teachers and putting Apple logos on them. And then, entire office buildings? I mean, really. Who was that going to fool.
And I can't even read the article!
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
"The name's Cook. Tim Cook."
Commemorative product?
Those gas stoves obviously do not heat as much as a real MacBook Pro.
God, root, what is difference ?
give the moderation a rest, chinese /.ers. the guy expresses himself in unnecessarily strong words, but what he says cannot be denied as true no matter how much you try and want to. there is no flamebait, he's not looking to get a rise out of someone.
Morons!
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HAHA! Think they might end up on Ebay?!? I really want a iPhone grill for my patio.
SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT
Like some do with laptops?
Well? Does it work?
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
Finally, an iPhone for the rest of us.
These things are supposed to overheat and catch fire.
...authorities in Beijing are perplexed by a dramatic increase in the number of burn-related ear injuries.
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I could only cook one Hot Dog before runing out of data for the month.
Things are just too anti-business in the US!
that there's a market for over a billion pairs of iGlasses in China or RFC 2324's gonna outweigh War and Peace.
only cooks food at one temperature, and instead of that bothersome "oven cleaning" setting, Apple recommends you just buy a new one.
Next with the iStove is the iSink and the iFrig! This will make that new iEat app work perfectly in your iPad
Whilst Apple and iPhone are no doubt trademarks in the computing and phone business, if they have not registered their intention to enter the gas stove market then surely it is legitimate as trademarks are limited to the product area you're involved in.
Just as legal as two fans of Apple Records (the Beatle's music label) naming their new computer company Apple Computer?
The computer company was sued by the music label and ended up paying the music label $80K and promised not to enter the music business, and the music label agreed not to enter the computer business. Additional lawsuits occurred over time, with additional and much larger payments to Apple Records. Eventually the computer company bought the trademarks from the music label and licensed them back to the label.
I'd recommend that Apple Computer quickly enter the stove market to prevent the infringer from getting a foothold, to prevent history from repeating.
Replace the Apple logo with a sports team logo and suddenly this article doesn't seem so uncommon if it took place in America.
These are just discarded iPad prototypes that were using the Prescott-core P4 processor. Apple should be more careful where they dump their trash...
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Apple Pie.
I wonder if they use a patented method of starting the fire in the stove. I bet they'd call it an iMatch.
Oh, wait. Never mind. It'd just be cheaper for them to use a Dell.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
surely something as amusing as that must be protected free speech under a parody rule...
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Homer: Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics!
Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.
Homer: Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
I'm betting that one gas canister is all you need, as long as you have the iPhone adapter to refill it.
The rubicon in the Jeep world is a very hard off road trail near lake Tahoe. It use to be all Jeeps could run the easy side of the trail. The Jeep badge was ment as homage and to imply that modle could run the hard side. Don't know about the other names.
They come in the dark, only in the darkest.
NEC got his with this hard. Chinese pirates actually created a phantom NEC, complete with business cards, sales offices, etc. They branded and sold many consumer goods that NEC never made. NEC didn't realize it was happening until they started getting complaints about warranty service for the knock off products.
The iPhone stove is an act of stupidity really. Even the cops would know it was fake on first site. On the other hand a Panasonic, GE, or LG products could go years before getting caught.
Talk about a half-baked rip-off scheme.
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No user replaceable gas canister? lame.
You: "Siri, please cook dinner"
Stove: "ok... I am cooking dinner"
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Someone's getting grilled.
No wireless. Less taste than a charcoal grill. Lame.
Well, back around 2000 Apple had a lap top that did bear a striking resemblance to a George Forman grill.
Have gnu, will travel.
It certainly isn't a quality thing. The chinese don't have *real* Apple products. Apple products suck because of design... but... fake Apple products suck because they are crap quality. The only thing the Chinese could possibly associate Apple with is cheap knockoffs so I'm not sure what advantage the Apple logo has. I should know. We deal with China all the time. They cut so many corners the products fail out of the box. The defect rates are 50%.
I think it goes back to marketing though. Associations matter. It doesn't even matter if the product you are associating with is badly designed. So long as it is percieved as cool. Apple created a particular image for it's product porfolio amongst a certain crowd. It spread.
AT&T offers them free with a 2 year unlimited fuel contract. But, if you use too much fuel, they’ll limit your cooking temperature. They won’t tell you how much fuel you can use, just eat your food as rare as possible and you should be fine.
I'm not sure what's more pathetic. The chinese stoves, or the iHating fanboys here continuing their rants.
This quote from the article: "Even better, the phrase “Apple China Limited” is emblazoned on the back of these puppies in an effort to convince skeptical consumers who had no idea Apple was in the gas stove business that the product was not only legit, but a limited edition run of a special product!"
I'm pretty sure that "Limited" is a type of incorporation found in most parts of the world. Either this was a very lame attempt at a joke by the author or he just made himself look about as stupid as the subject of the story.
Iphone for Women?
to fall for this. Just the manufacturers. Look at how much trouble Chinese consumers go to get a REAL Apple product amid all the knock-offs there. They pay about 100% tax or agents 2x - 3x price to obtain one.
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So the next apple iphone requires a gas line in addition to a proprietary charger?
Now, see, a native gas grill attachment included with the phone MIGHT make me want to buy an iPhone.
I'm sure there's an app for it already.
Yes, there is an app for that already
And if you don't have an iPhone: Just get an iGrill
I have seen iPad's running android.
I have seen Android tables having the Microsoft Explorer logo on them...
I have even seen Microsoft fridges when visiting... This is business as usual over there...
The most astounding thing is that they do it in the complete open.. Large shopping-malls that only sell stuff like this... And police even patrol the stores...
But... When i said i was looking for a good android tablet and gave them the specs they basically wanted about twice the amount as the same tablet costs here in Europe... And that was after bringing it down from around 8 times the price here...
Everyone knows that Apple only makes electric stoves!
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originally from the onion... http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml
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Table-ized A.I.
I suppose because they were enforcing proview's claim against ipad, that china decided to be slightly less hypocritical and enforce some trademarks from apple.
well good for them. now if the media will finally mention that proview is a dead company, and the claims against apple are from bankers, which are holding on to assets of the dead company such as this trademark.
Macbooks when their batteries explode. They get refurbished as 'stoves.' The leaking lithium adds taste and builds strong bones.
i'm sure i remember seeing an iToilet ad on a web page sometime ago..
Right now the chinese police is protecting Apple in China, instead of the chinese people.. how sad is this, US IP and Patent Crap has invaded China...