Keepin’ it rea fake this sentence people should somehow see it somewhere on the internet.
Some unknown factories, they make cheap products’ clone, most of them are high tech, very famous top selling products. For example, iPhone clone, Macbook clone, G1 Android clone… and most importantly they are all made in China, I don’t know how they did it. Maybe actual user interface is different(never use it before) but by looking they look exactly the same(oh, I haven’t mention they also improved the tech-I will talk about that later for the iPhone). One of the obvious difference is THE PRICE – cheap!
Why call is Shanzhai not just XXX’s clone is simply because the products are made in China you heard it from Chinese, and people likes to give their products a name. Call it clone doesn’t sound good, its like almost fake products(it is but you don’t really call your stuff XXX’s clone right), So Shanzhai is the new trend word, its like a fashion, they changes from time to time. Western counties don’t really have Shanzhai cuz the special Chinese background made it – simply explain it “hundreds thousands years ago, bunch of good or bad people took a mountains/village build themselves cottages to against the government at that period of time. Their territory called Shanzhai.” but if I use google translate Shanzhai means cottage. I think that is the closest meaning we can get if you don’t know the background.
So let’s get back to the Shanzhai products(btw, Shanzhai is not a manufactory but a name, No matter which factory made what products we all call it Shanzhai).