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In the cut-throat tablet market, a Taiwanese company has found one way to make its product stand out: paying an actor to dress up as Steve Jobs and make tasteless jokes about how he's dead.

Tasteless, yes. Successful on Youtube, yes.

The advert for the Action Pad from Action Electronics is light on the new tablet's features saying only "it's amazing" with "great language". From the presentation it appears to be wifi-enabled and based on Android 2.3.

The Action Pad is introduced by a Taiwanese man in Steve's trademark black turtleneck and blue jeans, accompanied by a pair of angel wings and a halo indicating his status as a dead person. Relaxing with his Action Pad, dead "Steve" signs off the video with "at last I can play [with] another Pad". Check out the monstrosity below:

A spokeswoman for Action Electronics told Reuters: "Steve Jobs always promoted things that were good for people, Apple products, so his image can also promote other things that are good." ®

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all they would need is some white dude they all look the same anyway

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Clearly not Jobs.

As that guy has Angel wings and a halo. That's not the dress-code where he went...

Whilst Microsoft are also a greedy evil empire, as much as Apple are, at least Gates is donating his billions to good causes.

Jobs was just an evil businessman, that got lucky by hiring the right people and caught peoples imagination because he wore a poloneck and jeans when everyone else was wearing suits.

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The reg cracked wise in the previous article about the passing of gamer and how his body went unnoticed by other gamers for nine hours in an internet cafe and now you get your shorts in a knot and all uppity over this?

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