Fake Apple Stores Discovered In Kunming, China

[DeSwiss]

Run time: 01:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2bdlvbcL1c   Posted on YouTube: July 22, 2011 By YouTube Member: NTDTV Views on YouTube: 177   Posted on DU: July 23, 2011 By DU Member: DeSwiss Views on DU: 1131

 
Fake iPhone and Apple Products are flooding the black markets of China. But as one American couple discovered, counterfeiting in China has been taken to a whole new level. Take a look at this picture. Can you tell what's wrong with it? Can't figure it out? Look at the sign. Real Apple Stores don't have the words "Apple Store" on their logo. This photo, taken in Kunming, China—is of a fake Apple Store.

It was reported by a 27-year-old American blogger who lives in Kunming with her husband. They were on a stroll around their neighborhood when they happened to pass by. At first they thought it was an Apple Store like any other. But then they noticed the stairway wasn't built quite right, the walls weren't painted properly, and then there was the Apple Store logo. Other than these differences, it was a perfect knock off of an Apple Store. Even the employees thought they were working for Apple.

Counterfeiting is a major concern for China's trading partners, and the Chinese regime has had little success combating flourishing black markets and a rampant culture of piracy. As the couple was taking these pictures, they were approached by plain-clothes security who had been ordered by their employers to stop anyone from taking photos.

A few blocks away, the couple found two more fake stores.


- It would seem that Apple finds itself in competition, with the very same people they trained to make their products.

Irony. Overload.

[JHB]

1. But we absolutely must have free trade with them...

...because their cozy-with-big-money Communist Party government is just so devoted to enforcing basic market protections.

[southmost]

2. counterfeit communism meets cancer-stage capitalism

they deserve each other

[Auggie]

4. +1

[W T F]

3. That's the "Free Market" for ya.