The last version of Asus Zenbook is an ultrabook, and as illustrated below, a copy of Apple MacBook Air. Overall, if you change the logo, you will have hard time to see difference at the first glance.
Such similarities did not please Apple, and the company asked Pegatron, its manufacturing partner, to stop assembling the Asus ultrabook, in other words to choose between Apple or ASUS, as reported by Chinatimes.
Pegatron quickly reacted and has been transferring assembling of ASUS notebook to a competitor. considering that Pegatron is also assembling parts of iPhone and soon iPad models, stopping working for Apple would have had a strong impact.
This is also understandable from Apple, as the company is transferring know-how and process to manufacturing partners, and is probably not keen of seeing a partner manufacture a copy of one of its products for a competitor. Other people will most likely think that Apple is trying to kill competition, but when competition is copying Apple as sign of their inability to bring innovation, Apple has the right to limit such practice and find ways to protect its intellectual properties
