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China’s Knockoff Apple Stores Are Officially Under Investigation

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With an official investigation now underway, the party may soon be over for those expertly crafted fake Apple Stores over in China.

https://gizmodo.com/fake-chinese-apple-store-looks-amazingly-real-5822918

Reuters is reporting today that “industrial and commercial” authorities are giving the stores a thorough once-over, and that their investigations will examine brand usage, the supply chain and licensing.

“There is no Chinese law that says I can’t decorate my shop the way I want to decorate it,” one defiant fake Apple Store employee told Reuters, to which I must respond: Does anyone know if legitimate Apple retail stores carry Chinese law book software? This guy needs to brush up with a counterfeit version of that software, stat. [Reuters]

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