You know, it was bound to happen, wasn’t it?  Just like people figure out ways to spam Bluetooth, send annoying ads to your mobile phone and break HD-DVD copy protection, it was bound to happen that someone, somewhere would copy the iPhone somehow.

That somehow has been done, in China.  I guess it’s being called the iClone, but some people are going as far as to say the Chinese pirated MiniOne is even better than the iPhone it’s pretending to be.  Wow.   According to the article I just read:

“The miniOne looked just like Apple’s iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn’t. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers.” 

The question raised, that I must say I want answered as well, is this:  Does this signal the start of something bigger in China?  I am truly curious what other products they can copy/improve upon/relaunch out into the world.  Are we going to be stuck in an “anything you can do I can do better,” world?  If so, how will that affect products and their availability to us?  Interesting, very interesting.

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