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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by p1necone on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:10PM (#18650822)
The difference is that those products are actually new things created for those brands, and are (relatively) high quality. This is a cheap emulator box being drop shipped from Aliexpress that already existed before Soulja Boi slapped his name on it. (Not to mention that it's almost certainly violating copyright laws with all the roms bundled with it).
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by yellowapple on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:25PM (#18651639)
IIRC, Beats are also just rebranded Chinese headphones. You can buy them direct from China for half the price (but without that lowercase "b" on 'em).

Besides the blatant copyright infringement, I ain't seeing how this is any worse.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by tinus_hn on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:30AM (#18654875)
Apple isn’t going to risk their brand by rebranding cheap Chinese crap, they have nothing to gain from that. It’s much more likely they designed headphones and the Chinese factories made cheap clones.
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by yellowapple on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:37PM (#18657016)
Apple acquired Beats in 2014. Beats existed - and sold overpriced headphones - for 6 years prior.
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by tinus_hn on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:26AM (#18662275)
Headphones made in partnership with Monster which is hardly ‘cheap Chinese crap’. If anything it’s not cheap.
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by yellowapple on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:18PM (#18666262)
I never said they were cheap. I did, however, say they were Chinese, and while I can't seem to find any info online about where Monster manufactures its headphones, it's statistically probable that they're made in China (maybe not literal rebrands of existing Chinese-made headphones, though, so I'll concede that point).

Whether or not they're "crap" is subjective, but if Monster's cables are any indication, their price is likely not consistent with their quality.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by WalterSear on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:07PM (#18657875)
They aren't. Neither were they invented by Dr. Dre. They were developed in SF, at Ammunition Group LLC.
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by rasz on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:27PM (#18660310)
Dont you mean the image of Beats was developed by Ammunition Group, and then slapped on Monster headphones?
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by tinus_hn on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:25AM (#18662270)
Do you mean to tell me that the headphones were not personally made by Dr Dre? They partnered with Monster as unsurprising a rapper might know what he wants in headphones but doesn’t know how to actually manufacture them.
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by User23 on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:38PM (#18652120)
How is that different than slapping his name on a T-shirt and charging an even larger percentage markup?
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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by tinus_hn on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:25AM (#18654859)
One is against the law, the other isn’t.
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