"Me Too" Smartwatches is floating everywhere now, China's skilled electronics manufacturers and growing consumer market for bargain price style reflecting this.
China's thriving copycat manufacturers began selling lookalikes of Apple Smartwatch, some openly advertised as Apple copies. "Apple Smart Watch with Bluetooth Bracelet" says one vendor on Alibaba Group's popular Taobao e - commerce website. Photos on the vendor's page appear to be the real Apple Watch. It says features on the Chinese version include text messaging and a music player. It starts at 288 yuan ($45) - one eighth the $349 price of the cheapest Apple Watch.
At least eight vendors on Taobao advertised watches as "Apple Watch" or "Apple Watch Lookalike". Most of the people say that they were compatible with Apple's iOS or Google Inc's rival Android operating system.
Moreover one vendor jokingly used Chinese slang for a vulgar rich person, offering an "All New Apple Tyrant Gold Mobile Phone - Supporting Watch" only for 188 yuan ($45). Other eight vendors failed to respond to questions from The Associated Press sent through their Taobao accounts.
Alibaba, listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year after a record IPO has faced criticism in the past for hosting the sale of counterfeit goods. On this text Alibaba said "Alibaba Group is dedicated to the fight against counterfeits. We work closely with our government partners, brands and industry associations to tackle this issue at its source. We also utilize technology like data mining and big data to scrub our platforms of counterfeit."
Apple says that buyers of China and Hong Kong can pre-order its Watch beginning April 10th.
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