Customers and employees are seen in a fake Apple store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2011. Chinese counterfeiters have had a field day pumping out knockoffs of Apple Inc's best-selling iPhones and iPads, but one appears to have gone a step further -- a near flawless fake Apple Store that even employees believe is the real deal. Complete with the white Apple logo, wooden tables and cheery staff claiming they work for the iPhone maker, the store looks every bit like Apple Stores found all over the world, according to a 27-year-old American blogger living in the city blogger, who stumbled upon the store and goes by the name "BirdAbroad".ReutersAn employee (R) in a fake Apple Store gestures with his middle finger to a photographer trying to take pictures of the store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2011.ReutersEmployees at a fake Apple store use an iPad tablet in Kunming, Yunnan province July 22, 2011.ReutersA pedestrian uses his cell phone as he walks past a fake Apple store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2011.ReutersA counterfeit Apple iPhone, which sold for RMB450 ($66), is shown on top of other counterfeit phones with rough packing at a mall selling electronics in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province July 30, 2009. Apple computer, whose popular iPhone is widely copied in China, isn't the only foreign handset maker to suffer at the hands of counterfeiters. Knock-offs of Samsung, Nokia and Motorola products are all sold openly throughout China.ReutersA counterfeit iPhone is shown at a mall selling electronics in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong provinceReutersA counterfeit iPhone is shown at a mall selling electronics in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong provinceReuters
