Fake Chinese iPads No Longer Hot Sellers

China's vibrant "shanzhai" (also "shanzai") industry, which modifies or knocks off existing electronic products, quickly pounced on the iPad as it did many other phones and devices. Shanzai.com, a site that reviews these ersatz gadgets, reported the first iPad clone in March. Since then the faux iPads have reportedly been selling like crazy. "China's shanzhai industry is rolling out 'iPads' faster that people can say 'one gig or two'!" CNNGo wrote in June.

But months after the iPad's release, Chinese news media are reporting that the market for fake iPads has slowed dramatically. Why?

Lax intellectual property enforcement has fueled China's scrappy shanzhai industry, especially for consumer electronics. Shanzai phones and gadgets are often cheaper, more available and may come with creative twists, like the inPad's multiple USB ports or the slide-out keyboard that doubles as a stand on an unnamed, but clearly iPad-inspired, tablet device.

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