So the question must be, is a fake Apple store better than no Apple store at all?

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Earlier this year an American tourist blogged about a fake Apple store in China's southern Yunnan province.

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Apple has also had to contend with fake Apple stores in China.

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Last year, authorities discovered 22 fake Apple Stores in just one city and ordered them to either change their names or shut down.

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It's a few days before a big Apple event, and you know what that means: a ridiculous amount of really bad fake Apple product shots.

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In January, a woman in Randolph, New Jersey, said that she, too, wound up with a fake Apple tablet after shopping at her neighborhood Walmart.

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It was unclear whether the store was selling fake or genuine Apple products.

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In 1996, Sony Corp. had to break its no-comment policy on acquisition rumors when a fake e-mail purportedly from its chairman to Apple Computer's CEO started making the rounds.

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Whoever Fake Steve Jobs was, he knew his stuff and had contacts deep within Apple, high and low.

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Fake Steve's esthetic sense knows no bounds: The man goes berserk if an Apple truck's white color doesn't strike him as quite right.

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