A first copy of Apple’s touch pad, dubbed “IPED” is already available in China at discounted price.The clone of the iPad, filmed by a Japanese TV, closely resembles the original.
It runs on the Android system developed by Google and would be equipped with an Intel processor, but costs only 105 dollars (86 euros), when the ‘iPad is $ 499 U.S. and 499 euros in Europe.
Pictures of the IPED on YouTubeshow the gadget sold in a store of Shenzen where even the packaging looks like the iPad.
On the website specialized in new technologies TECH, a test of the IPED believes that “is IPED equipped with a counterfeit Intel and Android, which presents itself as an Apple product, which is not so bad. ”
Last week, Apple and its Taiwanese supplier of electronic components Foxconn would not confirm or deny rumors that the iPad was made in the great factory in Shenzhen.
Apple now second U.S. company by value, said Monday it had sold 2 million ‘iPad after four days of sales, surpassing the launch of the iPhone.
Last Friday ,iPad tablet with a screen 25 inches, was launched in Australia, Japan, Canada, Great Britain,France, Germany Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
Demand in the United States was so important that the company had decided to delay the global launch. In July, the iPad will be sold in nine other countries including Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Last week, Apple has replaced the software giant Microsoft, becoming the second U.S. firm in market value, and the third world.