Speaking of which, I have 3 people mention this fake store story to me today, and I've already read about it on Engadget yesterday. It wonders to me why anyone other than apple fanboys would care their mecca has been desecrated which is why I clicked on this thread.
I'm pretty sure FANBOY is a no-no word at AC...it has proven to be an incendiary description of someone during past use
This fake Apple store was 99.99% not sanctioned by the Chinese government.....the Chinese people are quite entrepreneurial on their own (look at the minority populations of Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia yet see who the merchant class is made up of). They'll learn
in time that it's not right to do these things....free enterprise is still a relatively new concept in China
I speak from experience, btw...having had intellectual property that was copied from us by several Chinese manufacturers in the past....and completely unauthorized by either my partner or I
The first free enterprise zone was Guangzhou Province in 1975 and Yunnan Province, in a remote section of China far from the coast free enterprise came much later.
You couldn't have picked a much different or further spot from Beijing, China's capital.