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Apple stores sell per square foot what the White House is worth. That's nearly double its closest competitor.

With all the attention paid last week to the news of completely fake Apple stores popping up in China, you figured Chinese officials had to do something.

Apparently, they started investigating, and shut down some of the fake Apple stores that were found in Kunming city.

Read 'China officials find 5 fake Apple stores in 1 city' on Yahoo! News. Chinese officials have found five fake Apple stores in the southwestern city of Kunming, and ordered two of them to suspend business while they're investigated, a local government website said Monday.

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Five years ago, we wrote about how counterfeiters in China weren't just making fake NEC products, but had built an entire fake NEC office, which basically acted as if it were the real NEC.

Here's a reminder of how quickly the tech industry moves: Apple's iPhone turns four years old today. On June 29, 2007, Apple launched the first-generation iPhone.

Despite its $500 price tag and measly 4 GB of storage, Apple fanatics diligently camped out at Apple Stores around the country, hoping to be the first to own [...]