Android store spotted in China ... selling iPhones It was only a matter of time. An unsanctioned Android store has been spotted in China sporting the trademark robot logo, but it’s selling iPhones. According to the Isidor’s Fugue blog, the random shop has popped up in Zuhai city, Guangdong province – the same district where Apple is currently tussling with Asian monitor …
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Go on eBay and search for "dual sim touchscreen" to be presented with a huge number of handsets that look almost identical to iPhones, often running Android and possibly an iPhone skin.
Seems likely that this is what is for sale in this shop, but without any pictures it's difficult to tell.
You can walk into one store, look at the various options then choose the one you want. That is called convenient.
Branded shops are unfairly biased about their own product and more independent shops are needed to honestly present the end user with what will suit THEM, not what suits the corporations bottom line.
I once saw a documentary about Chinese counterfeiting, it made my jaw drop. Whole shopping malls selling ripped DVDs and fake designer goods and the police turned a blind eye.
Burberry was used as an example of what can happen. They closed their Welsh factory and moved production to China where the 'official' factory was effectively cloned and an entire black market operation was set up, based on the Burberry blueprints and flooding eBay with fake products. On the one had I had no sympathy for Burberry, their mark-ups don't justify such greedy cost-cutting and I felt sorry for the Welsh workers. On the other hand the programme went on to look at the fake trade in cosmetics, medicines and contraceptives to East Africa and that was just scary!!!
They even found a workshop where some guy was knocking out fake eggs! No shit! They used some kind of chemical process and claimed it was cheaper than keeping chickens. Thing is, would you eat one? Would you want to live somewhere where you could eat a fake egg and not know it? At the end of the day, for some products, provenance is everything!
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