Addicted to solder fumes eh....
Anyway, I think calling them fake is totally confusing and arises from some poor asian translation. That's what shipping today so everybody should let go of the past - need something more descriptive of the Simplified Alps differences like the Cherry switches have - like Brown vs Blue Cherries. We don't go around calling the latest Cherry switches fakes.
The system is complicated, but it makes sense. Fake Alps are not made by Alps, but an assortment of different Chinese companies, so your Cherry switch analogy doesn't really work there. There are fake Cherrys however, the SMKs being the obvious example, but there's some keyboards that use copies that you'd really have to know what you were looking for in order to spot them. Unlike the Alps though, they don't seem to be as common, which is why you don't hear as much about them as the fake Alps.
The simplified vs complicated thing came around as a consequence of Alps changing around the design of their switches over the years to cut down on cost (which had an adverse affect on quality from what I can gather). As a consequence, the parts of simple and complicated Alps are not interchangable. As far as I know, the parts of new Cherrys and old ones are interchangable, as they haven't changed the design much over the years.
Sure, I'll swap them for two NIB Dells with Black Alps. Deal?
I can offer one almost NIB Dell for one of your Minis
