Fake apple stores

As it happens, I bought yesterday a volume of Anthony Trollope's _North America_ (1862) in a used book store yesterday and noticed the passage

"There is, I think, no task-master over free labor so exacting as an American. He knows nothing of hours, and seems to have that idea of a man which a lady always has of a horse. He thinks that he will go forever. I wish those masons in London who strike for nine hours' work with ten hours' pay could be driven to the labor market of Western America for a spell. And moreover, which astonished me, I have seen men driven and hurried, as it were forced forward at their work, in a manner which, to an English workman, would be intolerable.... The complaint that wages are held back, and not even ultimately paid, is very common. There is no fixed rule for satisfying all such claims once a week, and thus debts to laborers are contracted, and when contracted are ignored."

As for intellectual property, the textile industry of New England got its start with English designs in something of an underhand way, I recall.

I feel really terrible for the employees who work at these stores, thinking they are working for Apple. I think about how I felt when I got a job I really wanted at that age, and the joy they must have felt when they were hired, and telling all of their friends and family that they were Apple employees.

Look at the photos of the employees. They look so sincere and earnest. I can only imagine the disappointment they will feel one day when they find out they're working for a con man.

I'd love it if this story ended with "and then Apple, seeing how badly Kunming wanted to have an Apple Store, came along, built a real one, and hired all the employees at the new, legitimate store."

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 again, then usually get a second and third set of eyes to triple check it for spelling errors.

These knockoffs are really good, it's kindof sad that they're so close, but missing it with the little stuff.

Or do they not really expect any English speakers to show up? If that's the case, why the English words at all?

"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)

  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?