Chinese knockoff products have a warm place in my heart for being boldly courageous and amazingly clever at tricking consumers into purchasing their cute ripoff. Some of them are cool, others are annoying, but one particular Chinese website does its best to not only replicate the charm of Apple and the iPhone 4 as reseller, they have a certificate of manliness to prove it.
This site is so good at blatantly lying to consumers that they have literally forged an Apple branded “certificate of authorization.” I wish I could make this up, but the tricksters also go as far as to train users on how to use their fake-phone 4, and even offer special customer service numbers so you can get support and order China’s favorite gadget! I’m impressed, if not speechless by how far companies will go to imitate innovation.
But what further amazes me is that while the resellers did a damn good job of replicating Apple’s website experience, they pretty poorly imitated the iPhone 4. Though it’s kinda close to the real deal (you probably could mistake the real iPhone 4 with the fake one at a glance), further inspection reveals some rather obvious design flaws… Or features depending on how you view this Chinese wonder. I can’t vouch for how well this thing actually works, but M.I.C. Gadget has a plethora of screenshots detailing this decent attempt at authenticity.
[via M.I.C. Gadget]
