Busted Chinese Fake iPhone Ring Uses Real iPhone Parts

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This sounds like a bit of a philosophical conundrum. Is a fake iPhone still fake if it uses legit Apple parts? href="http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Fake-iPhone-ring-busted-China-rsg-2312826630.html?x=0&.v=1">According to Reuters, a gang of counterfeiters in China has been busted for making ripoff iPhones, but using components that they bought in Guangdong, and assembled in an apartment. The news comes from the Shanghai Daily, who point out the savings on buying a fake wasn’t exactly steller:

The cost to make one fake iPhone, which used some genuine parts, was around 2,000 yuan ($313). It was sold on unauthorized markets and on the Internet for around 4,000 yuan, only a few hundred yuan cheaper than the real iPhone, the newspaper said.

Unlike, say, the hiPhone 5 above, these counterfeits would be very difficult to tell apart from the real thing, seeing as they were just made from the actual parts on the cheap. So would they even really be a fake? Or more like a pirated version, an unauthorized copy…