Sorry, I had to laugh at this Newspick and the one above it on the sidebar.
I've just returned from a month vacation in southwest China where I could
find at least one "Apple" store in most towns of more than abt 50,000
population. Proper trade dress, Apple logo, clean, well lit, and full of every
other maker's devices. There were many "Apple" devices available in
other stores, obvious fakes on close inspection. And there were devices
which I could not tell if they were genuine, ghost shifted, or fake.
Is this imitation, the sincerest form of flattery? Or is it a collective
thumb to the nose by the Chinese population?
In the parts I visited there was little respect for the justice dispensed by
courts in the big eastern cities. Genuine Apple devices in genuine Apple
shops were both in short supply, and at the ridiculous (by Chinese measure)
global prices. Touts offered me "iPhones" on every street corner.
I was able to turn the table a little by displaying my Huawei U8150.
Turn it over, see the Google logo, "Ah, that's a foreign phone".
So I flick off the back cover exposing the legend in Chinese,
Huawei Technology Company Limited, Made in China.
Instant response, "It must be a fake."
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