Chinese are very known for breaking copy rights whatsoever and cloning any well branded product with no mercy, after Dolly cloning the first thought came to me was Chinese well be the first to clone humans -if possible- .
In technology they start to prove that they are doing good enough job in cloning the hot products (remember the iPod Nano clone, I got one from Dubai for ¼ the price of the real nano at that time).
Here is a review that encourages the readers to buy the iPod clone over the real iPod:
CHIPOD vs. IPOD: 13 REASONS TO BUY A NANO CLONE
Hey, but Why the clones not becoming the killer of the real ones.
Well, first it was because the quality, but after lately seeing many Chinese clones that have decent quality and in most cases looks a like the real ones, that’s really hard to differentiate them.
Compare CECT P168 iphone clone (left) with the real iPhone (right)
Example: Apple iPhone (the real one) vs. Cect HiPhone (the clone)
The funny thing is one commented that “the clone is too dark” but another responded to him: “that’s the iPhone”. Irony, right!
After having a second thought I checked the Hardware specs and compared the features and guess what it turns out in many cases the clones had higher hardware specs, more features?!
So now what!!! Eureka it’s the software the OS, the apps that’s what’s missing for these clones to become the real clones killers.
One of the comments about the iPhone clone is its missing the soul of the iPhone, well its soul is the OS and the apps, so imagine if the manufacturers of the iPhone could load it with the same iPhone OS, now what you will miss is the Brand, and even for this Chinese are smart enough to make you feel better they called one of the iPhone clones: HiPhone, clever. :D
Now the surprise: the Chinese manufacturers seemed to finally realize that, and guess what? they started to license the Oses, I guess it was hard for them to take that step - licensing - (of course it’s against their culture, why license when you can copy).
But who did license their OS for them?, no not apple, maybe google Android? Well it’s already free. -Hey Chinese folks you can get that for free, go for it-, Yeah, you guessed its Microsoft it had licensed WM6.1 for them.
Check that post : Chinese smartphones run Windows Mobile 6
Now watch out Chinese are coming to get you sell to you :D
When I first saw Microsoft Expression Web Designer Beta, I went through a flash back more than 6 years from now, when I was a junior web developer I had to work tightly with web designers, giving them our asp pages so they can dress it with their fancy designs, most of the time what we got is broken pages and inconsistent html code since i was new to web development my mind was screaming WHY! WHY! WHY!, Why they do this to our work? the answers was obvious they are designers the way they look to the pages is different from the way we look to it, they see it as a painting place how it looks is his job so if it looks cool then his job is done even if it had lost its functionality :-(
Things had been changed since that time designers start to master HTML more than before, they got the idea (COOL) using more professional tools Like Macromedia Dream weaver things start to work better for web development, after all the .net Web development boom we start to face the same problem again designers are getting our pages and corrupt it (NO NO NO not again plz), now I have more experience to figure the reason its the lack of easy to use Professional design tools,
Try to convince one of them to work on Visual Studio and you will cause a disaster :-).
Hay man they are designers maybe they need some designer friendly tool, maybe Dreamweaver, sure they are happy now but wait why are Custom Server controls are missed here ooh no they delete it why? Cause they are designers they are not responsible about it its all Macromedia dreamweaver fault it doesn't show our asp.net pages as the Visual Studio do.
Now back to the future Microsoft came with the long waiting solution Microsoft Expression Web Designer hoping to fill the gap between the developers tools like Visual Studio and the designers tools like Macromedia Dreamweaver with tight support for asp.net.
Now let’s open a project in it and c how it looks like:
Blank Page
Let’s open a web site
U can call it Visual Studio for web designers ;-)
Normal Web Design and Code and Preview split, enjoy
Master Page Design, a piece of cake
Standard VS Controls, u have no excuse now designers :-)
So now with expression designers now have the same power developers used to have with visual studio, now finally I can say let's relax war is over now let's live in peace together developers and designers.