Ah, the irony.

A Chinese company by the name of Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co is preparing to sue Apple if the iPad enters the Chinese market.  This company – let’s call it Shenzhen for brevity – pre-emptively cloned the iPad and released their cloned version, called the P88, three months prior to the Apple release.  It should be noted that the P88 looks remarkably similar to the iPad concept sketches and the final product. Hmmm.

The president of Shenzhen is now threatening a lawsuit, claiming Apple stole their designs!  A news report quotes President Wu of Shenzhen as being “very angry and flabbergasted” at Apple’s release of the iPad.  President Wu also stated that the P88 and iPad designs are “identical.”  Well, now, I wonder whose fault that is?

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Apple recently filed three new patent applications leading to rumors of iPhone 4G features.  Here is the patent application related to haptic feedback technology.  For more on haptics, see this Wiki entry.

Macworld has an interesting article about three new Apple patent applications that are generating rumors about possible new features in a next generation iPhone release. Advanced haptic technology, biometric scanning, and RFID capabilities . . . there’s an app for that too.