Inside the Race to Clone the iPhone

twoblackeyes writes: PopSci gives an in-depth look at precisely how China's tech-bootlegging economy works, start to finish. As China's overall economy continues to explode, the knockoffs coming out of Shenzhen are often indistinguishable from the real thing, on top of being usable products in their own right at a fraction of the cost. From a cheap MP3 player to a technology company's entire corporate identity, nothing escapes China's great replicators. The iPhone represents a holy grail for Chinese clone manufacturers, and the race is on to make the first iClone commercially available.