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I for one, cannot get over this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tsa+lot+of&_trksid=p233... Pretty much theft and resale.
What is the TSA supposed to do with these other than auctioning them off?
To be fair, OnePlus Buds appear to be counterfeit AirPods in everything but the name. Same shape, same white plastic, same metal endcaps, same black dots, even the same case design. In other words, a straight-up rip-off of Apple’s design with a few minor changes.
Also it is far easier to produce counterfeit packaging than electronics in the US. If I was going to smuggle something in, I'd put it in other packages and then repack it here. The best way to hide something is to mislabel it.
So this is just theft by the government in open daylight, right?
I for one, cannot get over this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tsa+lot+of&_trksid=p233... Pretty much theft and resale.
Sidebar: Why has the AirPod design become so ubiquitous? I always thought they were the ugliest earbuds since earbuds became small. Is there some technical reason they have this design? Or do people actually like it? Or is it simply the Apple effect?
Ditto. Whenever I see someone wearing them I make a point of locking eyes, then smirking. AirPods and similar headphones are an upscale version of a face tattoo. They are like a South Park parody come to life.
I firmly believe that in twenty years we will look back at them in chagrin, like bell bottoms and bowl haircuts.
Interesting... apparently it qualifies as a counterfeit even though it doesn't say Apple anywhere on the box? Or is the image caption wrong - maybe they're counteirfeit OnePlus earbuds? Oh BTW, it's "seize", not "sieze" :)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/i-before-e-exc...
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There's this older Sparkfun story. They had their multimeters seized for being yellow: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
Trademarks are not limited to text, the gray and yellow color scheme is a Registered Trademark by Fluke [0]. Nowadays 2/3 of the cheap meters use this color scheme, at this stage this trademark is effectively dead, most people will not connect this color scheme to Fluke. I didn't even know it came from Fluke (neither did SparkFun I guess), until this incident. But unless Apple registered something similar for shape o…
Apple most certainly did get design patents for them. First relevant search result:
https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2017/09/apple-w...
Not debating that patents are good things, especially in this case, but it is pretty obvious to me (as in, not a patent attorney) that they heavily incorporated Apple’s design IP.
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What is the TSA supposed to do with these other than auctioning them off?
If they consider them to be safe enough that it is not unethical to sell them in job lots to members of the general public, maybe they shouldn't be seizing them in the first place?
I have had a OnePlus3 and a OnePlus 7T, both of which were, and are still, fantastic phones.
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What is the TSA supposed to do with these other than auctioning them off?
If they consider them to be safe enough that it is not unethical to sell them in job lots to members of the general public, maybe they shouldn't be seizing them in the first place?
Well this is just dumb, but it might be cheaper than any advertisement OnePlus could have done to increase their brand recognition. I have had a OnePlus3 and a OnePlus 7T, both of which were, and are still, fantastic phones.