China Cracks Down On Fake Apple Stores

angry tapir writes "The Chinese city of Kunming has stopped 22 fake Apple stores from illegally using the company's iconic trademarks after Apple lodged a complaint with authorities. Kunming authorities found 20 unauthorized Apple resellers. Currently, 11 of those resellers are being investigated. Two other stores were discovered for related violations. Slashdot first discussed the mushrooming of fake Apple Stores in July."

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I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck around.

[stonedcat]

I wonder how many people will be executed for this whole ordeal.

Re:I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck arou

[Nidi62]

I wonder how many people will be executed for this whole ordeal.

They wont be executed. They will just be fined and arrested, and sentenced into whatever prison camp pays or is owned by the local government authorities. If you think prison is big business in the US, you haven't seen anything until you look at China. Forced labor, manufacturing, hell, even WoW goldfarming is done in Chinese prisons. Why kill someone when they can make you a couple hundred dollars worth of profit a month without having to worry about the government coming after you?

Re:I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck arou

[ShanghaiBill]

If you think prison is big business in the US, you haven't seen anything until you look at China.

On a per capita basis, the USA imprisons four times as many people as China.

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[Solandri]

The Economist had an interesting breakdown of an iPhone's manufacture. It actually looks like the U.S., Korea, Taiwan, and Japan are the biggest beneficiaries from the iPhone's manufacture. Well, aside from Apple itself that is. Foxconn's slice of the iPhone pie is minuscule.

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[mwvdlee]

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison), USA has more prisoners than china even in absolute numbers!
Some quick calculations tell me USA actually imprissions over five times as many people as China per capita.

Land of the free?

[TapeCutter]

Thanks for the link, the map is really informative, from an Aussie's POV I find it unsurprising we are in the same band as Canada but I didn't expect China to be in there too.

I recently read another appalling statistical comparison ( somewhere on scienceblogs ), it said; -
The 27 nations of western Europe (including the UK) have a total population of 500M and a prison population of 600K (total for ALL crimes). The USA has a total population of 300M and a prison population of 500K (DRUG crimes only).

[citation] - According to my legacy 1950's wetware.