Meizu’s quest to copy and follow Apple at every step almost meant the introduction of a ‘Rose Gold’ Meizu Pro 5, but the company boss says the colour is too difficult to copy.
Fans of the Zhuhai phone maker have posted images of a Meizu Pro 5 render in Rose Gold alongside an iPhone 6S of the same colour, with question aimed at Li Nan, if a ‘Rose Gold’ Pro 5 is on the cards. What’s interesting here is that even Meizu’s own fans are clearly expecting the phone maker to copy Apple’s latest iPhone 6S, and Li Nan doesn’t seem to mind as he reposted the question on his own Weibo.
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Meizu have long been known as iPhone clone makers. At the start of the Meizu phone range, the company got in serious trouble when they launch their Meizu M8 shortly after the original iPhone. Then with the release of the Meizu MX line-up each phone has been a slight variation on the iPhone 3G, even going so far to use iPhone 5C shells as invite gifts for the Meizu m1 range.
Li Nan might think it is just a little bit of harmless fun to be compared to Apple, but the tech industry is getting a little tired of their inability to think for themselves. Will we ever see an original product from Meizu?
And as for ‘Rose Gold’ they did plan to use the colour, but at this point it has proven to difficult for them to copy!
why can asians not innovate like westerners and when I mean Asians not only Chinese but almost every countries in southern hemisphere???
Apart from really kick starting what an smart phone is where did Apple innovate?Their skill has never been innovation it has always been to build on what has been before and make it simple they are brilliant at watching what other do and then bringing that to the masses in an easy to understand way. This thing where westerners keep saying where the east copies is old and is lacking in knowledge a lot of people that working in coding and tech are from the India/China at work for western companies its not like we have the upper hand in tech and the whole of China/Asia is waiting to see what we can do. Yes their is some copying but in the west we are not orginal.
Never been? To be fair we have to admit that they have innovated small things like paper, printing press and gunpowder.
“Small” lol. Yeah let’s just call paper “small”
First of all you should know Asia isn’t in southern hemisphere.
A color option isn’t an innovation at all and various Asian tech companies contributes a large chunk of advancements on displays, image sensors, silicon chips etc.
haha innovation is a commercialized knowledge
So, Apple has innovated only by copying previous ideas and making them popular
For now Apple is copying the majority of its innovations, including some ideas originally made by chinese companies e.g. xiaomi
Copying is very good, because through it we have better products which are cheaper
I hope you realize how many asians work for intel, apple, microsoft and google and how many of them are the ones designing and creating all the new technology in your iphone and or android device. Don’t be an ignoramus.
You must be living in hole – Chinese brands had a lot of inovations – 2k display,rotating camera,zero bezel,slimmest phone etc.. They just dont have the power to advertise – Tell me honest , no googles – What was the first fingerprint scanner phone in your opinion – I know 99% you will google because the phone wasnt a hit at all But please tell me honest
I’ll assume you’ve done absolutely no research before making this comment because it’s utterly false. Asians are the only ones attempting to innovate in the smartphone space anymore. Rotating cameras, FHD displays, QHD displays, 4K displays, the S-Pen, better cameras on smartphones, fingerprint sensors, 3D displays, the list literally goes on.
Yeah more phones for kids and bimbos, that’s what we were missing.
As long as it’s a good phone with nice specs and available for a good price who cares that it’s an iPhone close … I used to but not anymore.
This company is so pathetic, i don t know how they still exist
Alibaba.
I know, but what i mean is the Meizu brand managing, they change their logo and hope for the best..
Their products are pointless since the Mx4 i think
I have to say the answer again lies in Alibaba: $590M buys you a lot of decision making power ;).
I could say the same about a lot of persons too
They still exist because pretty much every phone they’ve made is pretty good.
They make decent phones. That’s why.
Look at M2 Note for $130. There’s lterally no other phone with better value.
Xiaomi redmi note 2
Lol that was expected
their main turn-off feature is locked bootloader..they had to change this policy long times ago but still they are dong locked loader