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031999
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May 8, 2017
031999And you may want to take a close look at that one. We bought one and it is total garbage. The end caps are steel (not titanium) and it has an effect on the magnetic field. When actually using it, the ball will simply get stuck due to the magnetic pull. No actual design effort behind that clone, just a cheap knock-off. But buy one if you like...
031999
53
May 8, 2017
TECENGHell no, i'll take my TEC version! But Also i'm guessing there are mills making clone parts in mass quantities, in different materials? Do you guys buy from those mills? Can we get ones made with other metals with different results, like copper or brass, considering they have the same weak field as titanium?
031999We do not buy machined parts from any sources but our own. This is our design, we have dedicated shops that make these parts for us. We then finish them in house (deburr, polish) and assemble, check and package them ourselves. We maintain quality throughout the entire process. You would be surprised how weak an effort was made to copy our product. In one case the two caps are not even attached to one another!
Regarding other materials, stay tuned... shhhhhhhh! ;-)
Alex00322
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May 9, 2017
031999That guy cheaply knocks off all the popular spinners. Everything is made in China with subpar materials incomparable to the originals in terms of fit and finish. Hope he gets sued.
okester
117
May 10, 2017
TECENGNot that it matters in the big scheme o' things, but that made-in-China knockoff description says it has a bearing as well? How would that get incorporated - then you could hold onto the buttons and spin the ring (I wouldn't imagine that it would spin much or well) and the sphere could magnetically stay in place on the side of their product?
okesterI don't think the person that wrote that translated English description even knows what an Orbiter is.
okester
117
May 10, 2017
TECENGThat's so lame how some folks will (for whatever reason - lack of original, innovative ideas?) attempt to distract the uninformed consumers and divert funds away from the original products by promoting their own knock-offs. For instance, whoever likes geekdotcom and the wish app will see a bunch of fidget cubes (wwwdotgeekdotcom/tech/fidget-cubes-1698913/) and not even know that Antsy Labs was the one (as far as I know? Although, I could be just as clueless, I suppose) which put in all the effort first.
Well, I guess I see that the copycats then don't have to put in the resources/time/money to create something new by starting from a genuinely unique concept and going through the prototyping, testing, and figuring out how to manufacture their new product stages to see if making the item is feasible, if they just see they can use their equipment and resources to make something that's already been figured out.
I figured it out - they are like the consumer products version of brood parasites like the common cuckoo! So they're product parasites or product cuckoos, lol... :)
okester
117
May 11, 2017
okesterAnd here's a story about the opportunist who makes the Stress Cubes: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/a-24-year-old-made-345000-by-beating-kickstarters-to-market.html He'll be in trouble if Antsy Labs gets a patent, yet the guy really doesn't care too much; he'll just buy another set of clones. Resourceful like a cuckoo.