Brazilian regulators rule that the iPhone is an Android handset in the country

19. ZeroCide posted on 13 Feb 2013, 17:58 11

In most circles they already are.

Person 1 - "Oh thats a nice iphone you have."
Person 2 - " No is my GS3. It runs Android"
Person 1 - " Yea im going to get an iphone like that on my next upgrade."

I've acually heard this.

21. gmracer1 posted on 13 Feb 2013, 18:24 7

HAHAHAHA I totally believe that! I'll sometimes have a customer not know what an iPhone even looks like, and when they see my Razr Maxx, they ask "oh is that an iPhone you have?" I keep my heart's explosion to a minimum and calmly say "no...this is a Motorola. iPhones are made by Apple. I have an Android." They then ask, "oh...well how come you don't have an iPhone." My answer? "Because I don't like it and I want a real smartphone. The iPhone can't do even half of what my phone does." From there, I plug my phone into the tv and show them Mirror-mode. MWAHAHAAAAAAAA

Bunch of idiots. All of the commercials, word-of-mouth, and magazines get stuck in their head, so they think the iPhone is some universal smartphone that every single human being has.

Again...............idiots.

26. hepresearch (unregistered) posted on 13 Feb 2013, 18:48 5

Story of my life... I have had to sit by and watch for months and years now as some people in town who have Android devices get asked that by basically all the others... and then listen when they get excoriated for not having a "real iPhone." I use a Nokia N75 expressly for the purpose of preventing random folks from walking up and asking me, "Is that one of those new iPhones?" It's a flip phone... they'll never ask me that ever, and I don't care that they look at me like I'm talking on a piece of garbage. They don't need to know, and I like what I have right now perfectly well already.

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38. JC557 posted on 13 Feb 2013, 23:15 1

A carry over of the iPod days when every MP3 player somehow became an iPod or "wannabe" despite the other brand being better in sound quality, features, storage price and battery life.

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25. ph00ny posted on 13 Feb 2013, 18:35 6

When i got my international note more than an year ago, i used to have people come up to me and ask if it was the new ipad

35. Just_a_boy posted on 13 Feb 2013, 20:09 2

That happened to my brother he was walking in a mall and a girl came closer to us and she asked: "where you bought your iPad mini?"

NOTE: His phone is a Galaxy Note II

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37. gmracer1 posted on 13 Feb 2013, 21:48 0

LOL!

That reminds me of when my sister called my Nexus 7 an "iPad." I jumped her sh*t so badly lol

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36. imsickwithsmartphone posted on 13 Feb 2013, 20:15 0

Apple only can win in America.....

8. Whateverman posted on 13 Feb 2013, 14:34 0

If I were Gradiente's CEO, I would license the name to Apple as well. I'm sure they make a quality product, but they would probably make a nice chuck of change from a deal with Apple. Also, what happens if this phone is a big hit, will they expand to other markets? And how can they do that when they can't use the iPhone name anywhere else? Idk, just sounds like Gradiente should rethink this one.

29. cretinick posted on 13 Feb 2013, 19:42 1

This phone is a piece of crap that Gradiente launched only to claim the name rights. It is their first smartphone launch, and the first phone in the last 10 years. It is a low budget chinese project with the Gradiente brand... You can't even find it to buy in the stores!

32. cretinick posted on 13 Feb 2013, 19:52 0

I don't. They have the name's right. And they registered it before Apple start to think in make phones.

Apple sues companies for rectangles with round corners... That is a dirty game! And they don't even create that shape for phones. Many other phones have that shape before Apple launch the first iPhone.

33. Just_a_boy posted on 13 Feb 2013, 20:06 0

Gradiente only launched this phone to do not lose the trademark, so they can make tons of money suing Apple (they deserve that) to rise the company.

20. ZeroCide posted on 13 Feb 2013, 18:01 1

It would be funny if they got the trademark for Galaxy and sold the iphone in brazil as a Galaxy phone.

9. jroc74 posted on 13 Feb 2013, 14:38 12

Exactly.

The word hyprocrisy should just show the Apple logo in the dictionary...

30. D_Tech-tive posted on 13 Feb 2013, 19:45 1

Right!

27. InspectorGadget80 posted on 13 Feb 2013, 18:57 4

Samsung should hire the lawyers of BRASIL

34. Just_a_boy posted on 13 Feb 2013, 20:06 0

Brazil in portuguese +1 for you!

28. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 13 Feb 2013, 19:23 2

At least they have a valid reason to ban Apple .... but geez, owning an exclusive right to a geometric shape an colors? what do you call that?