Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China

An anonymous reader writes "Just when you thought the Apple knockoff trade in China couldn't get any more ridiculous, Chinese Police recently seized 681 "Apple iPhone" branded gas stoves in the city of Wuhan. Yep, that's right, some folks are peddling gas grills and are trying to made the product more appealing by stamping an Apple logo alongside the 'iPhone' moniker on the front."

Obviously

[SJHillman]

Cooking dinner? There's an app for that.

I'll take three of them!

[Kenja]

and an Apple Care plan to cover them when (I mean if) they break. I shall be king of the hipsters with an Apple iStove! Now if only I had some iGas to power it....

Obviously

[philip.paradis]

Apple products are really hot in China.

Not a knockoff.

[wbr1]

Look closely at the picture. That is a patented Apple device! How can you tell? The corners are rounded.

You laugh, but...

[ciaohound]

Consider the poor SOB's who bought the genuine Windows ovens instead.

Re:Obviously

[Jeng]

Download my recipes for your iStove, only 99c per recipe.

 

Re:Obviously

[MisterSquid]

Actually these iStoves run on the same chips as the iPhone, the difference being they have Flash installed. iStove loads a page, Flash pegs the CPU, and iStove gets hot enough to fry an egg.

Re:I'll take three of them!

[OzPeter]

Now if only I had some iGas to power it....

For that you will want to invest in a bean heavy diet.

How can anyone be so dumb?

[ddd0004]

Morons!

--Sent from my Maytag phone

Re:Not a knockoff.

[wbr1]

You keep on with that stupid meme and I'm gonna round your corners, chucko.

My corners are already too rounded. I need to hit the gym.

Re:Does it work.

[SomePoorSchmuck]

Such semantically-vacuous automobile naming reached its ironic barftastic peak back when Toyota decided to name their largest and most gas-guzzling SUV line the SEQUOIA. [facepalm]

On the plus side...

[Arancaytar]

These things are supposed to overheat and catch fire.

Re:Apple's next announcement...

[the_Bionic_lemming]

Real men grill with charcoal.

Which is why this product appeals to the iPhone crowd. //ducks

1 dog and done.

[Anonymous Coward]

I could only cook one Hot Dog before runing out of data for the month.

Re:Obviously

[Anonymous Coward]

Cooking dinner? There's an app for that.

Their CEO is Tim Cook.

Discarded iPad prototypes

[GameboyRMH]

These are just discarded iPad prototypes that were using the Prescott-core P4 processor. Apple should be more careful where they dump their trash...

Re:Does it work.

[Anonymous Coward]

Consider how utterly ridiculous the marketing is in America before laughing at the Chinese. Trucks and Cars named after towns, cities and areas.

Websites named after puncuation.

Re:Obviously

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Hey, look! We just got a sneak peek at Samsung's new line of stoves!

Re:You laugh, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

I did, and there were three problems with it.

1. Turning on too many burners would make the entire stove stop functioning. I'd have to unplug it, and plug it back in to turn it off safely.

2. Usage was sometimes difficult: "The oven temperature has been changed. You must reboot for the changes to take effect."

3. And then this error: Not ready heating oven A. Abort, Retry, or Fail?

I took it back. Some folks are saying Windows Oven 3 is an improvement, but I'd rather stick with a wood stove.