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Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @05:14AM from the knock-off-business dept.

siliconbits writes "A new worrying phenomenon has cropped up in China and Apple has been its first victim; meet the first fake Apple Stores, entire buildings that have been designed to look like the real ones. Chinese companies have long been known for being master copiers but this takes the concept of plagiarism and copying to a whole new level. As expected, everything, from the architecture of the building, the colour of the paint, to the products, the T-shirt worn by the staff down to the logo and the badge design come from Cupertino."

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Incoming Bad Taste Wrong Ethnicity Joke by cosm · 2011-07-20 05:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Rill somebody prease crawl da Genrioses!

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Name by Rewind · 2011-07-20 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Can the fakes be spotted by looking for the R in Appre?

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1. Re:Name by Hognoxious · 2011-07-20 06:03 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  STFU, pedantic asshore.
  
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CEO by Ukab+the+Great · 2011-07-20 05:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Is the CEO of the Fake Apple Stores Fake Steve Jobs?
Re:You smell that? by royallthefourth · 2011-07-20 06:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes, now Apple knows how Xerox feels.
No joke about copying intended there...