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Re: Fake apple stores

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Post by Natsu »

rglovejoy wrote: post #46
blhack wrote: post #45

How 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…

> Or do they not really expect any English speakers to show up? If that's the case, why the English words at all? Because it makes the store look trendy and sophisticated. Sort of like how many Americans will think some product is "upscale" if it has a French name or the voiceover actor in the ad has a British accent.

One of my British coworkers often complained about just how bad some of those "British" accents are, too.

Re: Fake apple stores

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Post by geon »

sbierwagen wrote: post #49
TorKlingberg wrote: post #26

It 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.

It looks like they are selling genuine Apple products. Oh please. What evidence are you basing this judgement on, the blurry cameraphone pictures from this blog post? Magic? Intuition that of course a counterfeit store, operated by a third party, will only carry genuine items?

Actually, what would a counterfeit macbook look like? An amumimum colored generic laptop running XP with some OS X theme?

I have seen videos of (very obviously) fake iPhones, where they look pretty real until you start using it.

Would they actually sell anything if all they had was obviously fake crap?

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Post by pohl »

I have actually been in a fake Apple store. It was eerie. Same decor, the staff all wore the same tshirt uniforms...amazingly, they had set up shop within sight of a real Apple store, in a big mall in Denver. The only real giveaways that it was not real were that they had these big-ass multitouch tables with $10k price tags and there were very few customers in the store.

Re: Fake apple stores

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Post by joshwa »

I was in this "Apple" Store 2 weeks ago (I live in Kunming). They didn't have the airline magsafe adapter in stock.

The thing that gave it away for me (besides it being in Kunming) was the non-Lucida-Grande typeface everywhere.

If anyone wants me to go in there next week when I get back to the mainland, let me know.

Re: Fake apple stores

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Post by stcredzero »

afterburner wrote: post #47
gamble wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more a result of the fact that China produces little intellectual property of its own right now. Enforcing copyright would raise costs, hinder development of copycat industries, and deplete the mountain of foreign exchange they've accumulated through exports. In addition, unlike most small countries that don't have domestic IP industries, China is not susceptible to US and European pressure. The US event…

"once they dominate the IP industries" Well English isn't the primary language there, that should probably make a difference in how things play out compared to the US. EDIT: (compared to the US pirating British works)

From what I've seen, the Chinese don't "get" the aesthetic systems of other cultures as readily or completely as the Japanese did. The Japanese seem to have a distinct edge over everyone else in East Asia in this regard.
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