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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: reaper on Wed, 20 July 2011, 00:17:18

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: reaper on Wed, 20 July 2011, 00:17:18

Heh, this story made me lol.


"China might be known as the home of the fake iPhone, but what about whole stores? Surprising almost no one, China is indeed home to the fake Apple Store. These pictures from BirdAbroad (via IFOAppleStore), show a fake Apple Store complete with everything that a real Apple Store offers. Right down to the blue shirts with Apple logos and name labels for the employees. Starting from the top, this ‘Apple Store’ features a shiny exterior with a big glowing, white Apple front and center."

"Being the curious types that we are, we struck up some conversation with these salespeople who, hand to God, all genuinely think they work for Apple."

^ LOL


You can read more about it here (http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/19/chinas-fake-apple-store/#more-83982).

(http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/employee.jpg?w=640&h=480)

(http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/haha.jpg?w=640&h=480)

Gotta hand it to them..  that's a good knock off.

What's next?  Fake Filco, fake Realforce?  =P

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: cirE on Wed, 20 July 2011, 00:23:26

Quote from: reaper;383839

Fake Filco

Dilco with Strawberry RX Red switches please.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: bojinglebells on Wed, 20 July 2011, 10:36:22

so is this just a fake Apple store in that its just a computer shop that sells legitimate Apple products but misleadingly using the Apple Store name, or is it a fake Apple Store selling Apple product clones?

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: reaper on Wed, 20 July 2011, 17:02:06

^ Judging from the story, I believe it's the former since the article didn't mention anything about the store selling knock-offs.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: Multiple on Sat, 23 July 2011, 04:34:59

They sell Apple products.

In a store.

Forgive me if I'm frank but isn't that an Apple store?

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: reaper on Sun, 24 July 2011, 23:47:58

^ According to the article, it's not an official Apple store. O.o

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 25 July 2011, 20:01:49

It technically just gives Apple more publicity if you think about it... and they're still selling legitimate apple products, meaning more $$$ in Jobs' pockets.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 27 July 2011, 14:16:42

I don't get what the big deal about this is. All of Apple's crap is made in China anyways.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 28 July 2011, 16:53:33

Quote from: microsoft windows;388235

I don't get what the big deal about this is. All of Apple's crap is made in China anyways.

I have an issue with the whole economy being outsourced to china.
North America is going down the drain.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: prd on Thu, 28 July 2011, 17:25:15

Hehe. I remember a time in Romania when 90% of all sports clothes were either Nikee, Adibas or Roiback.

Ah! Adibas. Great name!

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: keyboardlover on Thu, 28 July 2011, 20:09:32

Quote from: prd;388979

Hehe. I remember a time in Romania when 90% of all sports clothes were either Nikee, Adibas or Roiback.

Ah! Adibas. Great name!

Lol...when I was there I was like "wow, this is the country of bootlegs!" But I guess China wins the prize on this one.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: woody on Tue, 02 August 2011, 16:02:35

Quote from: prd;388979

Hehe. I remember a time in Romania when 90% of all sports clothes were either Nikee, Adibas or Roiback.

No Roobk?
But, yes, living south of you, I know what you mean.

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: The Solutor on Tue, 02 August 2011, 17:36:48

Quote from: prd;388979

Ah! Adibas. Great name!

Here Abidas and Addas were more common, beaten only by the classic Panasoanic cordless phone.  :party:


Btw not just apple stores are cloned, even decent brands are cloned nowadays.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/china-ikea-copy-newest-ex_n_914893.html

Title: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: liist on Fri, 12 August 2011, 20:15:50

Damn things have changed a lot since the last time I visited.

I remember warehouses full of low quality ****ty bootlegs up to very high quality bootlegs. Amazingly, my fake Armani wallet is still holding up well.

Title: Re: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: MarthaS on Wed, 19 June 2013, 04:22:08

Sometimes copying stuff just reaches new limits. These guys are not satisfied with copying iPhone designs, now entire Apple stores, obviously fake. And just add up the fact that the employees didn't know the whole thing. That was great! How was that? I have just read this article this morning here.

No wonder that China is being called as the source of fake products.



ed: BS link to site removed.

Title: Re: Not only does China have fake iPhones but fake Apple stores also!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 19 June 2013, 18:46:31

2011 thread :eek: