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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 12:49 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 04:55 PM EDT |
If you read my post you would have seen I was talking about areas
away from the big Eastern cities. I have been there. I have been
accosted by the street peddlers, and by the teams of pretty girls
who try to lure one into the shops. Because I am a foreigner it is
assumed I am rich enough to buy an iPhone. I know that many in that
part of China will never be able to afford a real iPhone. However
there are enough affluent customers to keep the market titillated.
I met iPhone owners, residents of the impoverished southwest.
There are also enough non-affluent customers who will buy
any old rubbish so long as it has the apple symbol or iphone name.
Which is where the iphone's bad name comes from.
I'm intrigued by your last para (geeklog's charset is 8859-1)
It's not even clonemakers that are the problem, I've seen
"apple" back panels on good name brand devices. Are you
suggesting that this "rubbish" is being used as a geopolitical
weapon against Apple or all American brands?
Talking of copying and unknown brands, Huawei don't seem to push
their handsets in the Chinese domestic market. When I was accosted
by ersatz iPhone vendors I would show my Huawei. After careful
examination it was always identified as a fake, or an American copy
of some other Chinese brand. I never saw a Huawei on sale, and I
looked for them and asked for them. I wonder how they will go with the
reported introduction of the Ascend D1, probably too expensive
at ¥2500 anywhere outside the three metro regions.
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