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Very, it turns out. It seemed a shame in cultural terms that saying "We work for Apple in the US and are making an on-site inspection" was enough to convince security to respect them, but actually, if you have the balls to pull it off, I bet that would work anywhere.
"Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to contemporaneity. Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is of a simulation of reality. Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality; they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that anything like reality is irrelevant to our current understanding of our lives."
Edit on further thought:
If the products are the same, how is this more 'real' than a genuine apple store? They are both just a collection of signs, branding, processes and marketing.
What happens when stores in even smaller towns spring up, copying this fake apple store? What then is the reality? How far along do the copies of copies need to go, before they are totally divorced from the originals in America? Do they then become 'real' and genuine their own right?
They're gonna be raided like meth labs once Apple gets wind of this (if they haven't already).
I seriously thought that it had simply been torn down and replaced with a bank in the mean time – hey, it’s China. That could happen. It used to be "Only in America" that the world muttered in disbelief. This century, I'm thinking "Hey, it’s China. That could happen" might just be the new black, as it were.
Were we Americans this crass and exploitive in the late 1800's? Not rhetorical, but a genuine question. I've heard the opinion expressed that we indeed were.
By the 1860 United States Census, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million.
I seriously thought that it had simply been torn down and replaced with a bank in the mean time – hey, it’s China. That could happen. It used to be "Only in America" that the world muttered in disbelief. This century, I'm thinking "Hey, it’s China. That could happen" might just be the new black, as it were.
Were we Americans this crass and exploitive in the late 1800's? Not rhetorical, but a genuine question. I've heard the opinion expressed that we indeed were.
I misread the title as "Fake apple stories " and thought "how interesting can that be?" Very, it turns out. It seemed a shame in cultural terms that saying "We work for Apple in the US and are making an on-site inspection" was enough to convince security to respect them, but actually, if you have the balls to pull it off, I bet that would work anywhere.
I don't get it: do they (re)sell genuine apple products or ripoff too?
They're gonna be raided like meth labs once Apple gets wind of this (if they haven't already).
I seriously doubt the Chinese police will care. Maybe if it was in a city where Apple had a factory and they had cultivated relationships with local officials, but out in the boonies they have no power.