[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYsLikHkNs&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
The first part of this video talked about the problem of counterfeiting in the Shanzhai markets. But not everything is fakey fakery – this is serious business.
The thing that’s most striking about this video is the fact that Shanzhai phones are made not in someone’s kitchen but in multi-story buildings by trained assemblers. It’s an industry and the same folks who make the iPhoney are probably also assembling more mainstream models.
