I don't think anyone is surprised by the fact that iDevices are counterfeit in various countries around the world, but some police officers from New York they discovered a store where there were hundreds of iDevices waiting to be sold on the streets of the famous city. We are talking about clones of iPhones/iPods and iPad tablets, clones that, although similar in certain aspects to the real devices, are nevertheless so different in terms of functionality. The police who confiscated the devices claim that the iPhones had smaller screens, the buttons seemed cramped in the case, the applications did not work properly and the iPad tablets seemed to have screens the size of the one available in the Kindle Fire.
Immediately, you know it's not a real phone. The screen is smaller. The buttons don't fit right. It was more of a box. It didn't feel as sturdy. You would touch an app, and it would come up. It had a calendar app. It was blurry, but it came up. If you walked in and said, 'I want a 32-gigabyte white iPhone,' they had it. The iPad was the size of a Kindle screen.
In total, the police in New York seized: 436 iPhone terminals, 21 iPad tablets and 128 iPods, so 585 counterfeit iDevices that were to be sold at low prices. An iPhone cost around $150 and came in a package almost identical to that made by the Apple company, but the worst part is that the Americans who bought the products went with them to Apple stores when they broke and found that they could not be repaired because they were not produced by the Cupertino company.
Bernie Minoso, a manager at the Tekserve store, worked at Apple's Fifth Avenue store for more than five years, and had to face many unhappy owners — up to five a day — right after a new product was released. Their new devices would not communicate with the iTunes store.
"We started seeing this nearly perfect iPod with a different operating system inside," Mr. Minoso said. "We said, 'We cannot service this.' But he said he hadn't seen a fake in years and marveled at the size of the seizure just five blocks from his store.
For the police in New York, the stock of counterfeit products was cataloged as one of the largest ever seized because several thousand Beats by Dre headphones were also found, plus many, many other products. Unfortunately, this kind of business is starting to become more and more popular and the problem is that people are deceived by buying counterfeit devices thinking they are real.
