Apple requests Meizu stop selling the M8 due to iPhone ‘likeliness’
It was bound to happen sometime, and it just has. Apple has requested that Meizu, a large scale Chinese electronics manufacturer, stop selling their widely popular (throughout China) M8 handset, due to their being an ‘uncanny’ likeliness between it and the Apple iPhone. This isn’t all either, as before this request, Apple asked Meizu to halt all manufacturing of the product.
On the request, lead spokesman and CEO Jack Wong said;
Apple requested that we cease manufacturing the M8 this month, we agreed but then [Apple] came back and asked for a sales ban instead. I can cope with a production freeze, but not with having our shops closed and thus not being able to use up our inventory. If Apple and the provincial IPO take another insatiable step, I can only go head to head against them.
This request comes at the hands of only one accusation against Meizu, and that is that the product simply ‘resembles’ the appearence of the iPhone. It doesn’t look like Apple’s going to let this one go easily, and Jack’s also expressed concern over the fact that the IPO has the power to shut his factory down without going to court.
You’ll be pleased to know however that the M9, Meizu’s upcoming Android handset, shouldn’t be affected by this news.
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