tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post4733206210027659046..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Fraudulent Chinese APPLE STORE rip-offCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-6686422297631766852011-07-26T18:36:39.137-07:002011-07-26T18:36:39.137-07:00just saw the girls blog post that opened this up.....just saw the girls blog post that opened this up..<br /><br />you are right I was wrong..<br /><br />seems like first they practiced by making "perfect"<br />knock-offs of John Lennon albums and sold them on the black market<br /><br />now they're making "perfect Apple knock-offs and selling them in public stores <br /><br />WOW THAT'S PROGRESS <br /><br /><br />from a John Lennon c-d to an Apple iMac .<br /><br />am now running via my new Mac OS X Lion ....<br /><br /> "Designed in Ca", the pamphlet says...<br /><br />what we should do is spend anther trillion dollars straightening out our trade policies with China... <br /><br />as soon as the Tea Party stops inhaling that OOLONG <br />tea We she rise again !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-17767988626290474582011-07-26T17:26:14.807-07:002011-07-26T17:26:14.807-07:00"you just don't have your facts correct....."you just don't have your facts correct.... Apple has 3 (maybe 4) LICENSED retail stores in China in the larger cities.."<br /><br />The story I saw initially was on (I think) a local Fox<br />affiliate. The presumption--repeated by the broadcasters--was that Apple had "no retail outlets" in China, hence the consternation. If Apple has stores in China, I presume that anyone opening an unauthorized one would certainly come to the attention of the Chinese authorities. Do you think Apple would stand still for this, if they had known? <br /><br />"this store was for some reason NOT able to get a licence from Apple.."<br /><br />Do you know this for a fact? Or are you just speculating?<br /><br />"THEY DO NOT SELL knock-off Apple products.. They sell the real stuff..."<br /><br />Fact, or speculation?<br /><br />"at least this is what was reported on a feature about this store on NBC tonight..."<br /><br />This might have been a later account, with clarifications. The initial story I saw was reported as relayed from an American tourist who had taken hand-held digital shots on the spot. <br /><br />"besides most of the apple products if not all of them are made outside of the USA.."<br /><br />Does the fact that some of the parts of the products were made outside the U.S. somehow make product piracy okay? If they weren't authorized to sell the product, how did they acquire it?<br /><br />"Apple is ripping everybody off ... so,"<br /><br />Ripping who off? I happen to own an Apple, which works very well for me. I don't think it was over-hyped or over-priced. Microsoft may be ripping people off, because their products have so many problems, and aren't user-friendly. Not Apple. Or do you simply think all computer firms are ripping you off?<br /><br />"'one good turn deserves another", eh?" <br /><br />Again, I don't see your logic, here. China rips off an American company, and this is and eye for an eye? Huh?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-8530043731973240792011-07-26T16:37:12.664-07:002011-07-26T16:37:12.664-07:00you just don't have your facts correct.... App...you just don't have your facts correct.... Apple has 3 (maybe 4) LICENSED retail stores in China in the larger cities..<br /><br />this store was for some reason NOT able to get a liscence from Apple..<br /><br />THEY DO NOT SELL knock-off Apple products.. They sell the real stuff...<br /><br />at least this is what was reported on a feature about this store on NBC tonight...<br /><br />besides most of the apple products if not all of them are made outside of the USA..<br /><br />Apple is ripping everybody off ... so,<br /><br />'one good turn deserves another", eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-49383296766523415292011-07-25T18:50:32.828-07:002011-07-25T18:50:32.828-07:00the very same factory that makes the Apple compute...the very same factory that makes the Apple computer ALSO makes the Chinese version<br /><br />same with clothing just drop the brand-name label<br />then same shirt as IZOD becomes an IGOD shirt.<br /><br />same factory same quality same product made by slaves except the IZOD shirt is $47.50<br /> and the IGOD shirt is $4.95<br /><br />well<br />WHERE IS Hunter now that we need a bit of his humor ... and sanity...<br /><br /><br />Go Gonzo ! let's win one for the Gipper & other such fantasiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-84228833193329981872011-07-25T12:55:34.475-07:002011-07-25T12:55:34.475-07:00Steve McJobs & Co are the problem, CF. Not chi...Steve McJobs & Co are the problem, CF. Not chinese workers. Arrest Jobs and other techno-execs, seize their properties and assets, and divide. Besides, Jobs knows less about computing than the hardware techs in some chinese sweatshop. Meritocracy, CF. Not America/Crapple/Google/MSN first1000 Names of Vishnunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-26955647329788397262011-07-25T11:18:13.297-07:002011-07-25T11:18:13.297-07:00Curtis, which party or politician do you think is ...Curtis, which party or politician do you think is most likely to stand up to China?<br /><br />And most likely to stand up to illegal Mexican immigration?<br /><br />How central are these issues to how you will vote in a little over a year?Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-91474199592646015342011-07-25T10:43:51.652-07:002011-07-25T10:43:51.652-07:00Some protectionism is reasonable: Walmart for ins...Some protectionism is reasonable: Walmart for instance ships in chinese tires (as do other tire stores), and they sell for much less than Merican. So, a tariff may be in order (there is a small one already, courtesy of ..ObamaCo--). <br /><br />Protectionism however is a ....nationalist if not leftist policy. Many Mericans simply won't stand for it across the board--preferring say Toyota or Honda or Yamaha over Chevy, or Ford, or Harley. Usually the Merican made goods are pricier, because of labor costs (and unions)--but not necessarily superior in quality. Furthermore while one might want a Harley, consumer X doesn't have 20 grand for it, and has to make do with a Kawasaki for 1/4 the price of the HD. And so on. <br /><br />The Crapple affair is fairly trivia, though probably has some SiliconCo millionaires worried. Paraphrasing HS Thompson, fuck those people.1000 Names of Vishnunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-82945013062506245212011-07-25T00:52:53.782-07:002011-07-25T00:52:53.782-07:00Nobody complained about Chinese imports when all t...Nobody complained about Chinese imports when all they made were toenail clippers better suited for clipping toes than toenails.<br /><br />Fifty years ago Made in Japan meant a) you could afford it on your allowance and b) it was made of balsa wood and usually broken before you got to the parking lot.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061304265345986242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-30509192869500133692011-07-24T22:17:10.683-07:002011-07-24T22:17:10.683-07:00I agree with you about protectionism, at least aga...I agree with you about protectionism, at least against the Chinese government. They are just the worst monsters on the planet. Perhaps only North Korea and Myanmar are worse, maybe Zimbabwe, but all three are enabled by China.<br /><br />Every person must fight the Chinese in every possible way.<br />You and I can't affect international trade and neither of the major parties will take them on.<br /><br />Ron Paul or Ralph Nader might, but they'd do too many other goofy things to make it worth getting them into office.<br /><br />So I think it's a question of the individual.<br /><br />We need to boycott China. Don't even eat their food.<br /><br />Chopsticks aren't very functional because they don't have a scooping aspect.<br /><br />I know individual Chinese people that I've really thought were cool over the years. And many of them are ok even still. Taiwanese are ok, and people who've run screaming from Chinese culture are ok. And many of them don't want their government to be rotten.<br /><br />But those people are in the position that Americans are often in. Once a government gets weally big, it's hard to stop.<br /><br />Even the Athenians were bad once they were the superpower of 460 BC. Heck, they were bad to the Trojans clear back in 700 BC. <br /><br />The Red Chinese are real pills.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-2321997846551482572011-07-24T14:22:06.432-07:002011-07-24T14:22:06.432-07:00Kirby:
Grass roots protest is good, but I think i...Kirby:<br /><br />Grass roots protest is good, but I think in this case action is needed at the international level.<br /><br />If China wants to join the family of nations, they need to bear in mind that it's a symbiotic relationship. They can't rip everyone else off and march confidently into their dream. <br /><br />We need to treat them to the same medicine they've been giving to us. That might level the playing field, and allow American workers to compete. As it is now, no matter how hard anyone here works, the deck is stacked against us. We deserve better.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-55999607462143097202011-07-24T12:00:58.607-07:002011-07-24T12:00:58.607-07:00I try not to buy Chinese products. It's a one...I try not to buy Chinese products. It's a one-person boycott. I didn't know the precise numbers of the trade imbalance.<br /><br />No one should buy their stuff. It seems a lot more important than being vegetarian, and yet few who have signed on to an anti-Chinese boycott.<br /><br />The Chinese dragon is going to be very tough to stop. But it can start with refusal to buy anything that says Made in China.<br /><br />Just say no.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-29758736747613078012011-07-24T11:59:30.243-07:002011-07-24T11:59:30.243-07:00well
what's good for our USA Wall Street is ....well<br /><br />what's good for our USA Wall Street is .... a taste of things to come as they are already here as The New Reality !<br /><br />read this:<br />http://www.chinagaas.com/chinese-on-wall-street.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-61829347586801121462011-07-24T10:40:59.753-07:002011-07-24T10:40:59.753-07:00Well, Crapple can afford it, and yes much of the l...Well, Crapple can afford it, and yes much of the labor (hardware assembly, etc) is farmed out to China and other countries--keeps labor costs down and that means more shekels for Stevie McJobs and Co. Rip them off--who cares.1000 Names of Vishnunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-14528134933380189102011-07-24T09:06:49.748-07:002011-07-24T09:06:49.748-07:00Wake up, Anon.
This isn't about ethnic prejud...Wake up, Anon.<br /><br />This isn't about ethnic prejudice. It's about international trade, and what some nations think of as their manifest destiny.<br /><br />Mexicans don't come here because they want to spend the next ten generations picking strawberries. They want the same things you want, and the quicker the better. "Open borders" and "free trade" are just bullshit phrases concocted by people who want to legitimate their entrepreneurial schemes. It's about money, not about fairness or liberty or the rights of man. <br /><br />The sooner we set aside racist and bigoted thinking, the quicker we're going to solve these problems. <br /><br />One problem our country can't solve is bringing prosperity to other nations, and/or absorbing the millions of folks who want to flee the mother country. <br /><br />Maybe you have "solidarity" with the poor and destitute of the world. Terrific. Why don't you just emigrate to Brazil? Then you can be poor and honest and deprived all at the same time. That's consistency.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-3154333874862687852011-07-24T08:19:17.469-07:002011-07-24T08:19:17.469-07:00yeah I just bought one of those $1.00 sink strain...yeah I just bought one of those $1.00 sink strainers <br />up at the Dollar Store...<br /><br />how many high-paying jobs did "they" steal from us ?<br /><br />what is past is prologue let's build a new rail-road system with slave-Mexican Labor instead of Chinese Slave Labor !<br /><br />oh, we already do that... who ARE the orange/grape/cotton pickers in<br />America now? Americans?<br /><br />WOW ! the Chinese and the Mexican surely need a Union <br /> like our American Indians have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-5396504744682360892011-07-24T08:07:37.159-07:002011-07-24T08:07:37.159-07:00If you're not interested in the world, then yo...If you're not interested in the world, then you're missing a good part of human life. <br /><br />History doesn't fold up neatly into little boxes with labels and lids. China is no longer about Confucius. <br /><br />The point about globalism is that whole nations--and millions of people--are getting ripped off. That should concern you, even if you don't care about the fate of your own nation. <br /><br />Can we excuse China's trade practices by thinking that because they make parts for some things we use, this exonerates them from any responsibility for the loss of employment we've suffered here? In fact, we buy more and more from the Chinese, but this trend has been encouraged by various kinds of cheating by China. It isn't a level playing field. Are you willing to impoverish yourself to balance some imaginary "debt" you think the U.S. "owes" the rest of the world? If you are, you'd be a fool.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-66189048969956340362011-07-24T06:33:11.841-07:002011-07-24T06:33:11.841-07:00I stay, pretty much, in the Classical Chinese Cult...I stay, pretty much, in the Classical Chinese Culture..<br /> the literature ... the art <br /><br />greed AND fear has taken over just about everything especially re: China/USA<br />SINCE not Nixon but that Commodore Perry<br /><br />and<br />long before that The Silk Road ...<br /><br />and before Nixon the Japanese' Rape of Nanking...<br /><br />as for Apple<br /><br />isn' just about ALL of their "stuff" manufactured in China and other Asian nations that revolve around China ?<br /><br />and<br /><br />isn't just about everything American "made in China" ?<br /><br />&<br /><br />just the final assembly of products (like screw a tire's valve-stem-cap on a tire and say that the ENTIRE Ford Focus is "made in America" !<br /><br />this ... ugh ... trade situation and this present political <br /><br />quagmire is merely our (the world's<br /> New Reality<br /><br />if you don't want anyone in China hacking into your emails well<br /><br />simple CRATE A DECENT PASSWORD<br /><br />(don't use your birthday or your mother's maiden name or 1234567ate..<br /> orAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com