In LA

Apple released to the world several new models of iPod today. Here in China, this news seems a little anticlimactic, as it would appear that Apple releases new products here by the week!

I’m talking about mp3 players, headphones, USB drives, and other products featuring Apple logos on the packaging and sometimes on the devices themselves. One of my favorites in the photo at right is the headset in a package labelled ‘QiMei iPod mini’ that features two green apple logos, one rotated 90º from the other, and even sports an iTunes logo.

I’ll be posting more photos of such infringing items in the future, because I find them both amusing and instructive. The brazenness of the companies who manufacture these items is pretty funny and it also serves as a reminder that the strict “intellectual property” laws that the Western world takes for granted are new and not well respected in China.

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