Axiotron Modbook is Back? Is Apple facing Hallyu backlash?

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Axiotron Modbook is Back? Is Apple facing Hallyu backlash?

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Axiotron; Hallyu

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/28/new-pen-based-modbook-pro-tablet-launching-in-early-fall/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiotron_Modbook

http://www.macprices.net/2012/10/05/the-modbook-mac-os-x-tablet-is-back-but-itll-cost-you-3000-more-than-a-new-ipad/

http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/30/pre.orders.set.to.start.october.3rd/

Do any of you know about this device? I saw at least two of them in San Francisco, at Borders Books, in 2009, in use by a customer working on art.

Later, out of curiosity, I surfed the Net for info. Reportedly, the modder/reseller had supply issues. I always suspected the modifier irked Apple by preempting them or dangerously pre-leaking the not yet heard of iPad, and I sometimes suspected that Apple paid him off to go away for a while.

Now, it is back, and his prices are steep. I wonder whether time away and high pricing on return were conditions for averting being nuked by Apple. (Yes, I KNOW it sounds conspiracy theory in nature...)

Also, see these:

"How will ‘prior art’ impact Apple’s patent argument?"

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/10/133_122938.html

"By Apple's logic, Galaxy should cost $2 mil."

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/10/133_122936.html

"Apple fires Korea's country head"

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/10/133_122936.html

I am not sure about what is going on in Apple's mind. It launches a massive, deceitful campaign to literally destroy Samsung. Yet, on Korean TV, in Korean subways, and all around Korea, iPad adverts and iPad accessories seem to outnumber Galaxy adverts 10 to one. In eMart, Lotte, and underground pedestrian malls, innumerable stalls barrage passersby with more iPad than Galaxy Tab accessories.

One Korean couple mistook my Galaxy Tab 10.1 for an iPad. But, when I unsleeved it in their restaurant, they smiled. Noticing their iPhone 3, I asked them whether they were upgrading to the 5. They said no. They were considering and likely to go Samsung. Since they are older than 35, I asked, "Is your decision because Apple tried to destroy Samsung?" They replied in the affirmative. I believe that that sentiment is starting to emerge in Korea. I predicted such maybe late last year or early this year. Materialism goes only so far, and Apple, assailing Hallyu, went too far.