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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Not new but still worrisome... by grub · 2011-07-20 05:22 · Score: 4, Informative

In 2006 NEC found that a group in China had cloned the NEC corporation. They had factories, office buildings, stationary... the whole nine yards.

They were even receiving royalty payments.

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Re:Name by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-20 05:41 · Score: 0, Informative

That's Japanese, you ignoramus. Chinese has distinct "r" and "l" sounds.