Dumb Question - Joye and Janty
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Janty designed the eGo and was the first to sell it. Joye is the manufacturer who makes both the Janty eGo and the Joye eGo as well as others.
The main thing is to find the vendor that has it in the color you like and to also take into consideration the length and coverage of the warranty if that is important to you personally.
There are in fact many companies in china that all make the same products, corporate theft of technology over there runs rampant. Most if not all are manufactured using the same exact specs, therefore they are also interchangeable.
Just because one pair of jeans in the us says pierre cardin (or whatever they say) do they really make your .... look better than lets say a pair of levi's?
Just because one pair of jeans in the us says pierre cardin (or whatever they say) do they really make your .... look better than lets say a pair of levi's?
Bear in mind as well that parts of a 510 are very disposable and may not last what is normally considered 'long'. Atties moreso than batteries; so it is LESS likely the battery will go toes up, and very likely the atties will need replacing often (this is normal btw); so Id say either get the cheaper unit and swallow the cost if the battery goes out after the company warranty (non Janty is anything from 1 - 2 weeks) or get the more pricey one and be covered in the less likely (imo) event that the battery goes bad fast. Its really a matter of what YOU think would be better for YOU as a consumer.
Personally I bought mine from cignot, and been very happy.
Personally I bought mine from cignot, and been very happy.
I'm not so sure that the "copy cat" eGos are really copy-cats in the sense most people are thinking. More likely they are made by the _same_ manufacturer, just being sold to many people besides the original customer who designed them.
When you sign on a manufacturer in China you usually try to get them to agree not to produce your product for other customers. But even then, if they have other resellers demanding the product it will be very hard for them to say no to their one original customers when there are dozens more dealers willing to take it. I'm not saying it's right, just that's how it's done.
This is actually what happened to Cisco if you are familiar with that debacle. A lot of journalists were calling them knock-offs/counterfeit, but in fact they were being produced in the same factory and identical to the legitimate products, only unlicensed. Perhaps being built on a clandestine overnight shift, for example. Contrary to popular belief it is extremely hard to make an indistinguishable clone of such a technically advanced product.
Electronic products usually contain software which gives the original designer a high degree of protection from such a thing, at least in the USA and Europe, through force of copyright. However for a simple piece of machined steel it is very hard to get any IP protection and if your manufacturer decides to screw you, well... you're screwed.
As I mentioned in another thread there is a concept of "trade dress" which is different from both copyright and patents, and most probably could be used to enjoin unauthorized channels from selling the eGo, at least in the US. Will be interesting to see how this plays out, but my guess is these designs will keep improving and we are unlikely to see major squabbles over particular iterations as they are superceded by better ones.
When you sign on a manufacturer in China you usually try to get them to agree not to produce your product for other customers. But even then, if they have other resellers demanding the product it will be very hard for them to say no to their one original customers when there are dozens more dealers willing to take it. I'm not saying it's right, just that's how it's done.
This is actually what happened to Cisco if you are familiar with that debacle. A lot of journalists were calling them knock-offs/counterfeit, but in fact they were being produced in the same factory and identical to the legitimate products, only unlicensed. Perhaps being built on a clandestine overnight shift, for example. Contrary to popular belief it is extremely hard to make an indistinguishable clone of such a technically advanced product.
Electronic products usually contain software which gives the original designer a high degree of protection from such a thing, at least in the USA and Europe, through force of copyright. However for a simple piece of machined steel it is very hard to get any IP protection and if your manufacturer decides to screw you, well... you're screwed.
As I mentioned in another thread there is a concept of "trade dress" which is different from both copyright and patents, and most probably could be used to enjoin unauthorized channels from selling the eGo, at least in the US. Will be interesting to see how this plays out, but my guess is these designs will keep improving and we are unlikely to see major squabbles over particular iterations as they are superceded by better ones.
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