TAIPEI: At the end of an alley in the most violent city in Taiwan, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan blocks a sliding-glass door that opens only from within. Inside, technophiles can buy iPhone knockoffs for two-thirds the legitimate price.

With a touch-screen and Apple’s logo on the back, the “iClones” look just like the real thing, but Apple does not plan to offer iPhones, which combine a phone, music and video player with wireless Internet, in Asia until 2008.

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