The recent revelation of fake Apple stores located in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming,Yunnan highlights its infringing patents and copyrights culture. Visitors are fooled by elaborately constructed replicas of commercial products in China known as a counterfeit haven.
While Apple has not yet given any official comments on the fake Apple store, the scale and audacity of China’s counterfeiting culture has surprised many, putting the spotlight on other fake Chinese goods.
Check out the slideshow to see the Chinese counterfeit products:
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.MOP.MOPFake Apple Store Fools Inspectors and Staff, Plus Other Counterfeit Brands MOP.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters.ReutersAT&T mobile phones are seen for sale alongside T-Mobile phones at a RadioShack electronics store in Los Angeles August 31, 2011.ReutersA street vender sells McCain, Obama and Palin condoms in New York's Times Square. Recently, New York City Health Department has launched an iPhone and Android application - NYC Condom Finder - to help users find free condoms.ReutersA counterfeit iPhone is shown at a mall selling electronics in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong provinceReuters.ReutersAn employee (R) in a fake Apple Store gestures with his middle finger to a photographer trying to take pictures of the store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2011.ReutersA counterfeit iPhone is shown at a mall selling electronics in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong provinceReutersEmployees at a fake Apple store use an iPad tablet in Kunming, Yunnan province July 22, 2011.ReutersA pedestrian uses his cell phone as he walks past a fake Apple store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2011.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters.Reuters