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SMH: "I've read you've made over $100K in just a couple of weeks, is that correct?"

Fei Lam: "That number is bull. I made only 30-40k. 100k was income before cost of product. Every time a site picks up the story it changes a little bit..."

Source- http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/iphone/legal-action-eyes-...

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Legal action? What the fuck. They should embrace such people that are essentially fans AND evangelists and not threaten them, just because they haven't been able to ship a white iPhone.

Somebody tell me a good reason why this behavior would be justified.

Agree with you but is not whether there's a good reason or not, it's about Apple protecting their brand. They probably won't sue him, at least that's what I'm hoping for a young entrepreneur, but he is definitely not going to be able to keep selling his conversion kit. His supplier is in big trouble.

It's not his conversion kit. It's white Apple parts directly from Foxconn (i.e. they are official Apple parts) that a friend of his who works at Foxconn is able to procure. More bluntly, they are stolen Apple parts.

He is selling licensed parts for Apple that he got directly from foxconn while making a profit from them, and you're complaining about legal action?

If I hire someone to steal something, we are both at fault and could reasonably be held responsible. If Apple made agreements with the manufacturer in which the dies/plans/whatever are the property of Apple and can only be used to make parts for Apple (which would make sense), then the manufacturer is clearly stealing from Apple by providing the same parts to another party.

I think it makes a lot of sense for Apple to sue his supplier. It may also make sense for Apple to sue him, legally, but the cost/reward of legal action against a poor minor is probably not worth it to Apple.

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