China is the country in the world where there are the most fake Apple Stores, various local companies trying to reproduce almost faithfully the look of real Apple stores in order to deceive customers.
From the Apple logo, to the facade, the appearance and arrangement of the tables, the arrangement of the products and the t-shirts worn by the employees of the Apple company, these companies try their best to copy Apple Stores as much as possible, but the American journalists they discovered quite easily.
The discovery was easy because in one of the streets of the city of Shenzen there are no less than 30 such stores that have the logo of the Apple company and that do business with iPhone terminals, they are now taking pre-orders for iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus which will be released tomorrow.
Although Apple has only one Apple Store in Shenzhen and only 5 authorized partners, in the city there are dozens of stores that copy its logo and appearance, without the authorities intervening in any way to close them, even in a civilized country things would be different.
On a bustling street in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, more than 30 stores carrying Apple Inc's iconic white logos peddle pre-orders for the new iPhone, a gadget that has become a status symbol among many better-off Chinese. Many of the stores look just like Apple's signature outlets, right down to the sales staff kitted out in blue T-shirts bearing the company's white logo and the sample iPads and iWatches displayed on sleek wooden tables.
Based on the desire of many Chinese people to buy Apple products, these stores make a lot of money by reselling the products of those in Cupertino at an overpriced price, the launch of the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus bringing them enormous amounts of money from too gullible people.
This has been happening for years without the authorities in China having any intention to change the country's copyright legislation, but perhaps Tim Cook's meeting with the Chinese president will change something.
