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China to Apple: We're Makin' Copies

Tim Querengesser | Posted 10.15.2011 | Canada
Read More: Kunming, Apple, China, Apple Store, Ikea, Nike, Fake Apple Store, China Knockoffs, Fake Apple Products, Starbucks, Branding, Kfc, Iphone, Consumerism, Canada News
Tim Querengesser

Copying has long been what China does with Western stuff, but the Apple Store story seems to have touched a new nerve. Now, not only is the product being copied but the retail aesthetic and subsequent hype is, too. That's being perceived as a threat.

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China Launches Crackdown On Fake Apple Stories

CP | Posted 09.24.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: China Fake Apple Store, Apple Store China, Beijing, China Apple Store, Kunming, Shanghai, Canada Business News

BEIJING, China - Chinese officials have found five fake Apple stores in the southwestern city of Kunming, and ordered two of them to suspend business while they're investigated, a local government website said Monday.

Officials couldn't do anything about the other three stores -- which prominently displayed Apple signs and logos -- because they did not find any fake Apple products for sale, according to a report by a local newspaper posted on the Kunming city government's website.

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Forget Fake Goods: Entire Fake Stores Pop Up In China

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.20.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Piracy, Fake Apple Store, Kunming, Apple Store, Counterfeit Goods, BDA China, Yunnan, China Apple Store, China Economy, China, Ipad, Canada Business News

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- BEIJING, China - At first, it looks like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company's logo chat to ...

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