Android Sign Insults Apple In Rather Juvenile Way (PHOTO)

This gives a new meaning to "Ice Cream Sandwich."

Reddit user dkmag shared the following photo, snapped in China and originally posted on the Chinese message board tt.mop.com, of an Android shop next to an Apple shop. The Android store's logo is, uh, confrontational, to say the least:

The text beside the Apple logo translates to "Exclusively Apple," in that it exclusively sells Apple products; the Android logo, meanwhile, would seem to indicate that the store next door has something exclusive for Apple, and it's not a smartphone or a MP3 player.

Indeed, many Android proponents have long held the belief that Apple sucks; now they have the visual proof.

Both shops are likely fakes, of course, as I very much doubt that Google would approve a be-penised version of its beloved Droid mascot to grace a storefront, no matter how close an Apple store happened to be.

The awesome fake-ness of this bawdy Android shop recalls the incredible counterfeit Chinese Apple store that swept the Internet back in July 2011. (There are also fake Android stores in China -- some of which even sell the iPhone). China recently surpassed the United States to become the largest market of smartphone owners; Android enjoys a wide lead over Apple, with an almost 69 percent market share to Apple's six percent.

Android has the market share, and now it has a (very) crude representation of its dominance, thanks to an enterprising store owner in China. No word on whether Apple has anything planned in retaliation, though we can only imagine that its revenge will involve Siri.

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Comments

[Popopnano]

03:48 PM on 05/18/2012

Classic!

[carsa]

11:01 AM on 05/18/2012

Is Android getting serviced by an underage Apple?

[Radarman]

12:25 PM on 05/18/2012

That's why its called an applet.

[admoor]

10:49 PM on 05/17/2012

HA, HA, HA, HAA, HAAAA. Oh, man I couldn't stop laughing. That is so messed up... or..., whatever you look at it. I bet all the people at google would feel the same. They're probably searching for "who-is-the-smart" guy now!!

[theroundearth]

07:13 PM on 05/17/2012

This is one shop, not two, there is no wall in between. Over the shelves on the right, under the Android sign, you can see the "iPhone" name.

[StinkyMoBub]

01:42 PM on 05/17/2012

LOL!

[republic84]

12:17 PM on 05/17/2012

HAH!! I needed that picture in my life!

[Jason Mathes]

10:50 AM on 05/17/2012

Fake or not - it was good for a giggle. And both have their own subset of issues. Neither Suck. And I prefer Android over Apple due to the freedoms I get rather than being stuck in Apple's little Sheeple-Verse. (Well that and a larger screen, more processing power... etc.)

[mattmarion]

08:14 AM on 05/17/2012

I just fixed a Mac two days ago. The girl that owned it turned it on one morning to find a blinking question mark instead of an OS. She took it to the store and they said that they would have to open it up an that it would be at least $500 to fix. I offered to look at it.

First I searched google and found that's it's probably a simple fix but I had to get Disk Utility running. No problem, I'll pop the HDD out and use a disk utilities program in Windows. Nope, not only is there no HDD hatch on it! I thought, just have to download a boot disk with the tool on it. Nope, have to use the original disk (6 year old machine, no more original disk). Ok, so I need to pirate an official apple disk just to get to the Disk Utility. Respect for Apple (that was already very, very low) pretty much gone at this point. Anyway, I get Disk Utility up and running (many hours later) and 10 minutes later the girl has her laptop with full hard drive back and working just fine (though with a heavy warning from me to A: backup everything and B: Never, ever, ever get a Mac again).

It if had been a Windows or Linux laptop I'd have just downloaded a utility, free and legal, onto a bootable disk or USB key and had the thing back up in minutes.

[StinkyMoBub]

01:44 PM on 05/17/2012

Ah, the joys of planned obsolescence...

[Neitherpartieslapdog]

09:50 PM on 05/17/2012

Oh if you only knew the similar stories of Mac problems where I work. You will probably understand when I say "chmod 777 samba *.*". Hint: The command used in Unix when the only Mac on the whole network tries to takeover and crashes it. When I was an IT gut we called it "the ghost of Steve Jobs" and that was when he was still alive. Thats what happens when your a unix/linux wanabe.

[Samuel Bun]

06:39 AM on 05/17/2012

Apple could turn the Android guy around and bite him in the butt, but then they would be accused of stealing Pacman. Thank God Steve didn't have to see this.

[elsquibbs]

11:56 PM on 05/16/2012

Butthurt.

[cagog]

10:56 PM on 05/16/2012

HA! That's freaken hilarious. It looks like there's gonna be a new format war.

[anthonyparker80]

10:22 PM on 05/16/2012

Its called a free market

[NunyaBus99]

08:38 PM on 05/16/2012

hilarious

[Wuud52]

07:08 PM on 05/16/2012

So this is how they do things at the fake, unlicensed Android store next to the fake, unlicensed Apple store. That's China for you...

[DSevere]

06:56 PM on 05/16/2012

This is funny. And, I've been using Macs all my life, starting with my Mac Classic in 1992 (though I currently have a beef with Apple over Final Cut Pro 10 which sucks, and doesn't interface with the far superior FCP 7. But we digress...). Android phones are good too, though, happy with mine...

[truthocentric]

07:08 PM on 05/16/2012

What's the deal with Final Cut Pro 10?

[DSevere]

07:14 PM on 05/16/2012

It's based on iMovie, not FCP 7, doesn't work with the ancillary programs of FCP7 like DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, and Motion. It also does not read FCP7 files or Quicktime Movie files made on FCP7.

Basically, it decided to be more of a consumer program, which leaves pro editors in a really bad position. I am really afraid of what's going to happen when my current computer goes and I can't find another one that will run 7. I have to make DVDs and fix sound problems.

[huffydave81]

07:45 PM on 05/16/2012

Hmmm...Adobe Premiere Pro is way better software

[DSevere]

08:24 PM on 05/16/2012

That could be, but I've been using FCP for 5 years and really don't want to learn a different program if I can avoid it. (I'm more of a creative person than a tech person, so, able to learn software but it's not my favorite thing.) Also it's expensive. So I'm hoping enough people complain about 10 that Apple will make adjustments in the next year or two...