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An iPad design ripoff (complete with the JingPad Pencil) with fake images from a Chinese company. That's a no from me.

by Toutouxc 6y ago

tomxor 6y ago
Yes it's a rectangle ripoff it's true.
- wongarsu 6y ago
  I think it's the solid, flat grey-metallic border that gives it the iPad look. It's clearly distinct from e.g. the Surface (also grey border, but either slanted or with grove) or the Galaxy Tab (rounded towards the rear) or the Lenovo Tab (black, rounded in all directions). Though really there are only so many variations on "flat rectangle with screen" you can do, it's hard to come up with an obvious design that isn't in use by someone.
  - tomxor 6y ago
    sold? flat? grey? > really there are only so many variations on "flat rectangle with screen" you can do Exactly, and of those variation only a subset are widely palatable. In other words solid, grey rectangles are kinda inevitable for what is essentially a consumer hand held computer display... It's like someone calling the concept of a loop a ripoff from C - no.
    - wongarsu 6y ago
      Well, all while and for loops are ripoffs of Algol. It is kind of notably how the JingPad looks like an iPad, but doesn't look like a Surface or Galaxy Tab or Lenovo Tab or Amazon Fire HD.
      - tomxor 6y ago
        > Well, all while and for loops are ripoffs of Algol. That is my point, C didn't "invent" for loops just like Apple didn't "invent" a near featureless rectangle. But nether did Algol, for loops are the obvious next step for a conditional jump with a counter. In my analogy arguing about people copying Apple's iPad is like saying "look the syntax is more Algol-like than C-like", who cares, really... making simple and inevitable decisions doesn't mean people can own them and call it design, that's the child version of copyright "I have it so you can't have it".
- 1023bytes 6y ago
  If you look on the side with the power button it looks same 1:1

An iPad design ripoff (complete with the JingPad Pencil) with fake images from a Chinese company. That's a no from me.

tomxor 6y ago

Yes it's a rectangle ripoff it's true.

wongarsu 6y ago
I think it's the solid, flat grey-metallic border that gives it the iPad look. It's clearly distinct from e.g. the Surface (also grey border, but either slanted or with grove) or the Galaxy Tab (rounded towards the rear) or the Lenovo Tab (black, rounded in all directions). Though really there are only so many variations on "flat rectangle with screen" you can do, it's hard to come up with an obvious design that isn't in use by someone.
- tomxor 6y ago
  sold? flat? grey? > really there are only so many variations on "flat rectangle with screen" you can do Exactly, and of those variation only a subset are widely palatable. In other words solid, grey rectangles are kinda inevitable for what is essentially a consumer hand held computer display... It's like someone calling the concept of a loop a ripoff from C - no.
  - wongarsu 6y ago
    Well, all while and for loops are ripoffs of Algol. It is kind of notably how the JingPad looks like an iPad, but doesn't look like a Surface or Galaxy Tab or Lenovo Tab or Amazon Fire HD.
    - tomxor 6y ago
      > Well, all while and for loops are ripoffs of Algol. That is my point, C didn't "invent" for loops just like Apple didn't "invent" a near featureless rectangle. But nether did Algol, for loops are the obvious next step for a conditional jump with a counter. In my analogy arguing about people copying Apple's iPad is like saying "look the syntax is more Algol-like than C-like", who cares, really... making simple and inevitable decisions doesn't mean people can own them and call it design, that's the child version of copyright "I have it so you can't have it".
1023bytes 6y ago
If you look on the side with the power button it looks same 1:1