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Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China
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."
Rill somebody prease crawl da Genrioses!
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Can the fakes be spotted by looking for the R in Appre?
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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.
Trolling is a art,
Worrying phenomenon for who? Not for me, for you? No? Then it ain't worrying. A new famine looms in Africa, China swears to brutally surpres discent in Tibet, hundreds are tortured and/or killed in Syria, the western world is embroiled in a near global war now and I am supposed to be worried about some stores in China that might mean Steve Jobs income is a few dollars lower? He didn't worry much about all the loss in income to westerners when he outsourced all production to China but I am supposed to worry when what everybody warned would happen (what is produced in China is copied in China) is happening?
Tell it to the marines, cry me a river, talk to the hand because the face ain't listening. I could go on but that might show I cared. Which I don't.
Cue Apple fanboys defending their gadgets being produced in slave labor camps with reaganomics.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Maybe someone didn't get the memo -- after you build a NuPenny store you're not supposed to open the doors ;-)
education is no substitute for intelligence
And even the Ask /. section copies the same "What's the best way to store my digital photos for the next 2000 years?" question every 2 months since it was first posted in like 2002.
Is the CEO of the Fake Apple Stores Fake Steve Jobs?
Decades ago, when military groups landed in places unfamiliar with airplanes and other technologies, groups would form with mocked up crude simulations of the things they saw. From imitating outfits, things they carried, etc. These people knew they wanted the same things these strangers had, and this was the best way they knew how to get to something like what they had. They just didn't have any grasp on the steps really needed to get there.
The difference is that many folks in China do know how to get there... but they also understand realistically they can't provide the same things with the tools they have so far. But mimicking is still the most logical path under the circumstances - provide what they can, and use the income to grow to make that mimicry reality, like most emerging economies playing catch-up end up doing.
Congrats giant corporations, maybe now you will see the dark side of outsourcing to a country like China. You fight so hard to acquire and defend patents and trademarks in the US, but guess what? The country you put all your manufacturing in doesn't care. And China has a growing economy unlike the US, so look at all that money you're losing! So you have a few choices: - Move manufacturing back to the US, where you can enforce your patent and trademark claims. - Give up the patent and trademark system and learn to make money without having a monopoly. - Keep losing money.
Even better is that half the replies still tell the person to use floppy disks.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
I don't think this takes their copying to a whole new level. They've already copied an entire city called Hallstatt in Austria. They've built the same houses, same streets. Compared to that, copying an Apple store is nothing remarkable.
It smells like...Karma.
when you don't pay for software or maybe hardware then it's easy to high revenue.