Guess what tech fans! Those Chinese tinkerers have made another copy of an Apple trademark that's bound to cause a stir, if not entirely offend fanboys and turtle neck wearers everywhere.
Having already found success with the SciPhone and a full sized replica Apple store, those crown princes of piracy, the Chinese, have now created THE ULTIMATE ACTION FIGURE, in the form of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs. ACTION figure. ACTION? Steve Jobs?
Girls have their Barbies, boys have their Action Men and now, the long forgotten subset of androgynous hipsters that swathe around Shoreditch coffee houses will have their own doll to play and sexually experiment with.
Naturally, being an Apple product (albeit a fake Apple product) it's ludicrously expensive, costing a whopping ?65, doesn't work with flash and it can't play any real games. Not that you'd want it to play games, no, this action figure is all about the way it helps you do your design work, isn't it?
You smarmy tit.
Rather predictably, Apple haven't responded to this trademark infringement well. After all, what was Steve Jobs if not another trademark for Apple to profit off of?
Apple issued a statement to the Daily Mail, saying:
“Mr Jobs has not consented to the use of his name and/or image in the product.”
NO SHIT SHERLOCK, HE?S DEAD! we're no experts, but we're pretty sure it's never going to be the easiest thing in the world for a Chinese company to obtain the image licensing rights to a deceased technology behemoth.
Aside from stating the obvious in the Mail, Apple are believed to have started legal proceedings against the two companies behind the Steve Jobs iAction figure, InIcon and Dragon in Dream.
They?re also rumoured to be preparing a press statement for the Independent that will confirm that the Pope is indeed a Catholic.