Chronicling the Apple Rip-offs

What other Apple rip-offs can you think of?
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Some of these are not even slightly similar! Like previously mentioned, the Dell DJ doesn't look the slightest bit like an iPod. Of course different music players are going to be somewhat similar, that doesn't mean anyone has ripped anyone else off. (Although ones like the ABoss have no excuses... Might as well go all out and put "Cheap-O iPod Mini Rip-Off! Look cool without having to shell out for a real one!" on the box! :)

The site lists the Gateway Profile as a rip-off of the iMac flat panel. However, the Profile existed years before the iMac flat panel came out. If anything, it should be the other way around. Though their standard is pretty weak, simply integrating a flat panel seems to fit the bill for them. To be a rip-off it shoud have to actually resemble the Apple, like with the original iMac rip-offs.

It's arguable that most HDD MP3 players are iPod rip offs; most probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for the popularity of MP3 players that the iPod single handedly created. In effect, most players on the market today are designed to try to cut into the iPod's market share and thus are by definition ripoffs :)

The dell DJ? That is not a ripoff. It looks nothing like an iPod. How stupid can you get?

I remember an iMac G3 ripoff available at circuit city not long before the introduction. I still have the advert somewhere. Fishes, narco.

There are Apple fans and there are idiots. That site helps point out the difference between the two.

A notable addition to the list... http://www.macworld.com/2001/06/bc/buzzgrill/index.php

Huh? I'll admit that some of the iMac G3's rip-offs were truly rip-offs but the others were questionable at best...

Am I correct in believing there are better things to worry about than chronicalling the products which bear a slight resemblance to Apple's own? I'll grant you many of those iPod clones bear a striking resemblance, but the Dell DJ? Is he serious? I can't believe I wasted my time looking at that site. That's five minutes of my life I'd want back, so I can spend them wisely, looking at porn.