The iPod touch has been around about as long as the iPhone. It was launched three months after the first iPhone 2G, almost exactly three years ago. While the iPad has been in the market less than six months, a large number of potential competitors have been launched running Android and there seems to be a real rush to market. Six months is about as quickly as any hardware product can be reasonably engineered.
So the question is why is the iPad being cloned while the iPod has remained in the market by itself?
Great question. It seems that other manufactures simply ignored it, and now are stuck living in Apple’s shadow.
[Via DF]