Apple is seriously penetrating the huge Chinese market. Mobile consumers in China too have shown great inclination for iPhones, iPads and iPods. Apple products are doing well in China. The booming Apple business has led to mushrooming fake Apple Stores in the China. A 27 year old blogger who blogs by the name Birdabroad has unearthed a fake Apple store in Kunming. Apple has only four official stores in China, two in Beijing and two in Shanghai, and none in Kunming. Further efforts by the blogger revealed two more rip-off Apple stores, one sporting a sign “Apple Stoer.”
“I know, you guys are laughing: an Apple store in Kunming? No one who doesn’t know me personally has ever heard of Kunming before. Kunming is the end of the Earth. It’s all true – but seriously, China warps your mind into believing that anything is possible, if you stay here long enough. When 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 mean time – hey, it’s China. That could happen.
You have already guessed the punchline, of course: this was a total Apple store ripoff. A beautiful ripoff – a brilliant one – the best ripoff store we had ever seen (and we see them every day). But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadn’t been painted properly.”
Source- Birdabroad
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