UPDATE: Chinese Phone Maker of the GooPhone i5 might have blocked iPhone 5 sales in China!

NO WAY…!! You cannot just make a product (even in China) 5% larger than another product but besides that 100% identically and then furthermore expect to get a valid patent on the design…!! If that was the case what is wrong with copying a Gucci bag, a Mercedes Benz etc..?? (just make it 5% larger and then tell Mercedes that they are not allowed to sell their cars..!!??)

@asd – still have to get away with it…

The sight of hopeless Android fanboys praying that some Chinese knockoffs are going to be able to stop Apple from selling the new iPhone is really too enjoyable. Thank you for this article.

The sight of hopeless Android fanboys praying that some Chinese knockoffs are going to be able to stop Apple from selling the new iPhone is really too enjoyable. Thank you for this article.

This isn’t an Android fanboy issue. I own both an iPhone and an Android tablet. I like them both, and they are geared toward different uses.

But this whole mess of Apple suing everyone to increase their hold on the market is just nonsense. Part of Apple’s appeal has always been its underdog maverick mentality. I don’t like the fact that now that they actually have market viability that they feel threatened by every competing product that comes out.

Protecting your patent is fine, but trying to patent an entire style movement isn’t just stupid, it’s obnoxious.

Motorola didn’t sue when people copied their flip-phone idea. PC makers didn’t sue each other and Apple when they came with folding laptops. It just makes Apple look like a scared, desperate bully when they pull this, when they clearly have nothing to be scared or desperate about. And if they did, they should just come out with newer, more innovative products, just like they always have.

Nice to see how the patent issue revelas istself as being a bummerang for Apple.

Let them taste their own medicine …

Sorry to burst the bubble but it is highly unlikely that Apple would be blocked by ths kind of rip off as the Chinese market already has scores of feeble clones that fall apart 6 months after purchase.

Why would the Chinese authorities risk damaging their reputation with key trading partners (not just Apple) for this kind of bogus stunt.

You forget they won’t be suing in the usa but china – china is very pro-china companies and anti-us companies when it comes to local patent/trademark enforcement. Hence why there are so many knock-offs in china – they are challenged legally locally by us/european companies but are not enforced by chinese authorities. But if a chinese company challenges an outside company it has a higher chance of success.

Nice to see how the patent issue revelas istself as being a bummerang for Apple.

Let them taste their own medicine …

right back at ya apple, where it hurts more.I had Chinese made tablet the flytouch superpasd and they wer great actually my mates were mopre surprised with them the the Ipooed. So May be when the Good phone comes out I might just get one.

Apple has plenty of reason to be paranoid and protective of their style: Steve Jobs is dead. He was the only one with enough brilliance (though he did have plenty of arrogance as well), to make apple succeed. His vision and style are what made apple stand out. Now that he’s gone, that innovative streak seems to be gone as well.

So they have to try to jealously guard what little they have left in order to stay relevant. A failure-prone strategy, but understandable.

If this phone is reasonably priced and is unlocked for AT&T, I’m definitely buying one just to spite Apple’s greedy patent lawsuits to stop legitimate competition. HA! Try to sue the GooPhone makers. I dare you.

Sorry to burst the bubble but it is highly unlikely that Apple would be blocked by ths kind of rip off as the Chinese market already has scores of feeble clones that fall apart 6 months after purchase.

Why would the Chinese authorities risk damaging their reputation with key trading partners (not just Apple) for this kind of bogus stunt.

Wooooow bitch what kind of fucking accent is that? I bet u that hoe doesn’t even know any english and they probably wrote down whatever she said in Chinese and she just read it out.

Don’t underestimate the economic and political undertones here. The Chinese government will back Apple. Why? Because the alternative will be Apple pulling all it’s future production from the Chinese market if they face this kind of “steal it and patent it” risk on all of it’s products.

I highly doubt this is true. Ptents are not based on who submits first. Patents are based on who INVENTS frst and that is it. Goophone (if it actually exists) is nothing more than a cheap knockoff of a very solid Apple product.

right back at ya apple, where it hurts more.I had Chinese made tablet the flytouch superpasd and they wer great actually my mates were mopre surprised with them the the Ipooed. So May be when the Good phone comes out I might just get one.

Apple has plenty of reason to be paranoid and protective of their style: Steve Jobs is dead. He was the only one with enough brilliance (though he did have plenty of arrogance as well), to make apple succeed. His vision and style are what made apple stand out. Now that he’s gone, that innovative streak seems to be gone as well.

So they have to try to jealously guard what little they have left in order to stay relevant. A failure-prone strategy, but understandable.

If this phone is reasonably priced and is unlocked for AT&T, I’m definitely buying one just to spite Apple’s greedy patent lawsuits to stop legitimate competition. HA! Try to sue the GooPhone makers. I dare you.

Wooooow bitch what kind of fucking accent is that? I bet u that hoe doesn’t even know any english and they probably wrote down whatever she said in Chinese and she just read it out.

Haha, amusing is the fact that people actually believe this. Even if Goophone would own some of the patents of the device they would never win in court as Apple have their track record to show as evidence against this copy. Ridiculous is the fact that some people seems to want a phone that looks like an iPhone but does not have all the features we have come to expect from the device.

Lol why is there so much hate on Apple from you guys? If it wasn’t for Apple, we would still be stuck seeing Window’s horrible design. Both Google and WIndows aren’t designer based.

I don’t think a patent battle in China would be easy for either Apple or GooApple if things got ugly: http://www.gizchina.com/2012/09/08/goophone-vs-apple-who-would-win-in-a-patent-battle/

@Wade, what is exactly is so “horrible” about Windows design. I have experience with both Windows and OS X, and in all honesty, in my unbiased opinion Windows is miles ahead of OS X in terms of desgin and usability. So much so, that I really hate OS X with a passion.

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Apple would seriously go nutz if they saw this!!!..then again..its better always will be..

I want a goophone besides show me an iphone made n the usa not n china :p

That is seriously a bad news for Apple. It’s own tricks are eating it.

The fruit company is going to taste it’s own medicine! good.

hey i bought a goophone from bangkok, i inserted a sim network is showing but i’m unable to make calls and send text messages please help me out….

Looks like the Chinese are getting there own back for Apple paying them a pittance to make the real Iphone i’m buying a Goophone it’s got the Apple build quality and an operating system that has’nt gone stale and for the right price!