By Stan Abrams (Guest Post)
The world of counterfeiting here in China is definitely a distorted, bizarro environment that is influenced by industry trends, while at the same time pushing back and giving legitimate manufacturers and retailers plenty of trouble in return. How are the shanzhai (knockoff) players swayed by the marketplace? Here’s a fun example: Falling prices for real smartphones is putting such pressure on copycat cell phone makers that many are moving into China’s tablet computer market. The mobile phone market is quite mature of course, and there are many reasons why…
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