I don't get it: do they (re)sell genuine apple products or ripoff too?
Most likely they are selling genuine products stolen from the factory or shipping containers.
What are you basing this on?
Fake apple stores
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#53How do the people doing these knockoffs miss the little details like "stoer"? They're obviously putting a tremendous amount of work into the clone, is hiring a native English speaker to look at it and make sure the English looks like English that much of an extra expense? When I'm sending posters and promotional materials to our printer (as in: the company that does printing, not the device), I go over it again and a…
is hiring a native English speaker to look at it and make sure the English looks like English that much of an extra expense?
You will be surprised how bad is anything in foreign languages looks in major Hollywood movies. Apparently, hiring a Chinese/Russian/German speaker is too expensive even when their product is exposed to much wider audience.
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#54Are these fake apple stores selling genuine apple products? Or the products themselves are fake?
It'd be great if they were real Apple products, so the fake Apple store was selling fake fakes.
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#55How do the people doing these knockoffs miss the little details like "stoer"? They're obviously putting a tremendous amount of work into the clone, is hiring a native English speaker to look at it and make sure the English looks like English that much of an extra expense? When I'm sending posters and promotional materials to our printer (as in: the company that does printing, not the device), I go over it again and a…
is hiring a native English speaker to look at it and make sure the English looks like English that much of an extra expense? You will be surprised how bad is anything in foreign languages looks in major Hollywood movies. Apparently, hiring a Chinese/Russian/German speaker is too expensive even when their product is exposed to much wider audience.
Native Russian speaker here - I often laugh during movies when they show Russian writing. 90% of the time, it's random gibberish.
The only time when the gibberish didn't seem random was during the movie Virus - there's a scene where they are choosing which language to display a control panel in, and one of the options is "Ebonics" - and the Russian underneath is just a random mix of letters, while the other Russian labeling was completely accurate.
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#56It looks like they are selling genuine Apple products. So the only thing this store is guilty of is using the "Apple Store" name without permission. There is nothing illegal about running a store that sells only Apple products, and decorating it in a matching way. It is quite common in China to see small stores that sell only Lenovo, only Dell or only Sony products, and they are not usually run by the brands.
> There is nothing illegal about running a store that sells only Apple products
I thought Apple only allowed licensed outlets to sell their products. My girlfriend worked for Best Buy, and if they sold certain items before the release date, Apple could have fined them or pulled all of their items from the store.
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#57I'm wondering if this isn't a real Fake Apple Store... as in, Apple recognizes the need to develop that market and also recognizes the fact that their products are prohibitively expensive for those customer - to avoid diluting the Apple brand, build "Apple Stoers" selling the merchandise at a deep discount.
These new Apple Stoers would be very functional and serve the company on many levels. Quickly test new markets with low risk, introduce the Mac at a lower price point, and eventually could be replaced with Real Apple Stores in strong markets.
As the Chinese economy develops, the price of the merchandise increases (maybe shifting from store to store?) and in a few decades they have a stronghold on the edgy cool market of top-of-the-line-computers in the new world market, but also have one on the lower-end Apple Stoer brand.
Sounds like a good plan, just seems strange that we're all talking about it though...
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#58Somewhat related: https://plus.google.com/108481435543473632495/posts/aQJGcM3L... (pizzeria in China)
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#59We struck up a conversation with these sales guys who, hand to God, all thought they really worked for Apple. Now I'm wondering how I know who I work for. Now I'm wondering if I could have faked this entire blog post by photoshopping up some pics of a real Apple Store. Now I'm wondering if I've been reading too much Philip K. Dick or too little.
Yea, I just had a vary surreal moment reading about this.
I started from http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/20/fake-apple-stores-mush... which at least link’s to it’s source. And says: "pictures of what looks like an Apple store but is in reality a completely genuine rip-off; the author of the post also confirms that the store was torn down and replaced by a bank" vs. what was actually said: "we went back to this store 5 days later and couldn’t find it, having overshot by two blocks, I seriously thought that it had simply been torn down and replaced with a bank in the meantime – hey, it’s China. That could happen."
So the Blog spam is a poor knockoff of a blog of about a knockoff store selling knockoff's of a real company's products. Yet the blog spam is still concerned enough about being copied that it’s using java script to prevent people copy pasting their text. Does that mean the knockoff story is also trying to keep people from copying them? And could someone be trying to reverse engineer a device sold in that store?
PS: Now concider for a moment where in the chain of fake this comment sit's.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Kunming is a huge tourist city that a lot of Americans go to when they visit China. This makes it easier for Apple to put pressure on them.
Maybe slightly, but no more than it would be for some chinese company to put pressure on the local police in San Francisco, and likely quite a bit less.