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   Rachel @ Last Res0rt, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 2:41pm

   
   

   Apparently...

   They found a way to counterfeit the genuine Apple products license too.
   
   Who's surprised?

    

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   william (profile), Jul 25th, 2011 @ 2:58pm

   
   

   Let me raise this curiosity if it haven't hit you yet.
   
   The "fake" apple store got shut down because they don't have the proper business license, like if you run a store in your garage without registering/paying for a business license.
   
   They didn't get shut down because they "copied" apple store.
   
   Is it a copyrightable "expression" on how apple stores are set up?

    

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   Deck, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 3:17pm

   
   

   For theire defense, they never specified the boiling point of what. I'm sure some element boils at 100 F.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 3:21pm

   
   

   A clever ploy to get rid of the competition?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 3:31pm

   
   

   Maybe some of these officials thought that it was more interesting to buy from those stores than from genuine ones ?
   It can explain why some did not get closed.

    

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   princefeliz (profile), Jul 25th, 2011 @ 3:44pm

   
   

   China Shutting Down Some (But Not All!) Fake Apple Stores...

   what is apple complaining about? That's the price they have to pay for doing business with the biggest human rights violators in the planet. By the way, there are not factories workers they are slaves.

    

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   Chuck (profile), Jul 25th, 2011 @ 4:16pm

   
   

   A matter of legality

   They closed down the shops without a business license, they closed down the shops selling fake apple products. They let the store that was selling real apple products with a legal business license keep goin. What's wrong?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 4:31pm

   
   

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   If it is not, it should be. Freetards should not be able to steal hard working peoples ideas on how to set up a store.

    

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   I-Blz, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 4:41pm

   
   

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   Lol, wrong post

    

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    Jan Breens (profile), Jul 25th, 2011 @ 5:01pm

    
    

    Re: Re:

    Explain to me, how do I steal one of your ideas. How do I take an idea from you, so that I have it, and you don't anymore...

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 5:08pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Re:

    Sorry /sarc
    
    but to answer your question... Lobotomy might work

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 5:09pm

    
    

    Really....
    
    "including the very story discovered by the BirdAbroad blog"
    
    
    you mean store??

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 6:38pm

    
    

    Green Light

    There you go. Get your valid "license to trade" and buy your Apple products from "ghost shifts" in factories, then you are golden. Away you go, complete with official blessing. Of course, a license might mean a few under-the-table payments to certain important local party officials. So be it. The factory has to be making genuine Apple products or be good enough to be convincing. That fake Apple store is no longer fake, it's official. Apple has no hope of winning any lawsuit against these guys.
    
    Apple has now officially lost control over its dealer network in China. They can expect a vast collection of copycat stores. Apple's market share is now about to rocket up in China. If Apple intelligently plays its cards, that it has been dealt by China, Apple can still make a lot of money out of the new situation. This is going to be a real test for Apple management.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 7:13pm

    
    

    Re: A matter of legality

    Nothing is wrong. This is business as usual in China. The store has the official green light.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 25th, 2011 @ 9:08pm

    
    

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    Excellent non-sequiturizing! xD

     

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    Richard (profile), Jul 26th, 2011 @ 2:11am

    
    

    Re: A matter of legality

    They let the store that was selling real apple products with a legal business license keep goin. What's wrong?
    
    No - it wasn't selling real apple products. It was "selling real apple products" - see the difference?

     

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    Gene Cavanaugh (profile), Jul 26th, 2011 @ 10:17am

    
    

    China and Apple stores

    Interesting that it is Kunming. That is in Yunnan, a province that until recently was the only one where Han Chinese were a minority.
    One Chinese official told me "They don't even speak proper Chinese there" as he explained why Kunming and Yunnan don't really matter.

     

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