We proceeded to place a bet on whether or not this was a genuine Apple store or just the best ripoff we had ever seen and to be sporting, I bet that it was real.
I know, you guys are laughing: an Apple store in Kunming? No one who doesnt know me personally has ever heard of Kunming before. Kunming is the end of the Earth. Its all true but seriously, China warps your mind into believing that anything is possible, if you stay here long enough. When we went back to this store 5 days later and couldnt find it, having overshot by two blocks, I seriously thought that it had simply been torn down and replaced with a bank in the mean time hey, its China. That could happen.
You have already guessed the punchline, of course: this was a total Apple store ripoff. A beautiful ripoff a brilliant one the best ripoff store we had ever seen (and we see them every day). But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadnt been painted properly.
Apple never writes Apple Store on its signs it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.
