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Report suggest half of iPads sold in China come from grey market

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 11th, 2011)

Apple is eyeing the Chinese market for expansion, but it has a troubling problem with grey market devices that it needs to overcome first. According to a report from a Beijing research firm, over one million iPads were sold in China during Q2 2011, but almost half of these sales came from the ...

Apple files trademark infringement against WhiteiPhone4Now website

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 27th, 2011)

Apple's legal team finally caught up with Fei Lam, the teenager from New York who was selling white iPhone 4 conversion kits, and filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against him. Lam claimed to be getting white iPhone 4 parts directly from Foxconn and was reselling them on his website, ...

iPad 2 launch: not Apple's finest hour

by David Winograd (Mar 17th, 2011)

Jason O'Grady, writing for ZDNet's The Apple Core, penned an incisive piece on the five ways that Apple screwed up the iPad 2 launch. I agree with every point. Usually, Apple has been very good on getting information to the huddled masses waiting for the next new iThingy, but this time the ...

How the iPad 2's gray market works

by Chris Ward (Mar 15th, 2011)

You may have noticed, as you were queuing for your shiny new iPad 2 over the weekend, that you were surrounded by rather a lot of people of a foreign persuasion. There is, it turns out, a reason for this -- the gray market in selling iPad 2s abroad. Because the latest magical product from ...

Foxconn denies selling white iPhone parts

by Dave Caolo (Nov 19th, 2010)

Manufacturer Foxconn has denied selling white iPhone parts in a statement made through the Taiwanese stock exchange. Last August, we pointed out WhiteiPhone4Now, a website selling white iPhone conversion kits. Earlier this week, the site's owner, Fei Lam, saw his project gain the attention of a ...

Real white iPhone 4s supposedly sold on Chinese grey market

by Dave Caolo (Nov 19th, 2010)

Website Giz-China has published photos of what appear to be genuine white iPhone 4s on sale in China. The boxes are marked with a label describing them as being "for internal use only," and certainly look more convincing than many of the knock-offs we see from that area. Prices reportedly range ...