Counterfeit iPhones selling well in Asia

just publish their email address in the clear and, in time, spammers will tell them they're selling knockoff iPhones

eBay is full of this stuff, I tell you.

@basscadet

he'll probably give you a FAKE $100 as well lol

I live in Hong Kong, and the locals will buy (and queue for) anything that is considered "cool" overseas. I have workmates who upgrade their cellphones every 3 to 4 months - it's madness. So the iPhone - when here - will certainly cell well (but perhaps not quite with the frenzy that we saw in the US).

That said, as long as Apple holds out on releasing the iPhone here, a) people will buy these knock-offs, and b) no one will report knock offs. The feeling I get here is "why should we help Apple enforce their IP rights here if they won't even release the real thing here for another 6 months?"

It's only when people start forking out cold hard cash for the real deal that they will want to report knock offs (so as to justify their investment).

I think CECT makes some of the knockoffs. I doubt Apple can do anything to stop them. I see knockoff DVDs for sale on the sidewalk all over Beijing. Nobody cares. I'm looking forward to seeing the Meizu M8.

"Ben said that creating the phone's internals was easy, but the external design was the hard part."

Yeah, and apparently the external design is the part that they still haven't got right. That thing isn't even *close* to an iPhone. It's not even a knock-off. Who in their right mind would even mistake that for the real thing?

Bloomberg

133$!!!!??????

OMG OMG I WANT ANOTHER 100$ STORE CREDIT MR JOBS!

my roommate just got back from asia (china, taiwan, thailand) and said that people pretty much hated Apple there, so what makes anyone think that if Apple released the official iPhone there that people would actually take notice and buy it?

It doesn't surprise me this is going on, but how do these Chinese companies think they can get away with sticking the Apple logo on their boxes? That's just ASKING for trouble.