Feds proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds

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It can be nonflexible to unmask a eccentricity between AirPods and the multitudinous earbuds that resemble them, except checking the box is constantly a good start. US Literate and Skirt Protection tonight tweeted that its officials had "recently bedeviled 2,000 cooked-up Municipal AirPods from Hong Kong, valued at $398K had they been genuine." There's moreover this press release on the situation, which praises CBP officials for "protecting the American realizable from assorted dangers on a day-to-day basis" and says that "the interception of these cooked-up earbuds is a downright remoteness of the vigilance and directive to mission success by our CBP officials daily."

The pigeonholed botheration is, based on the agency's own photos, the bedeviled products nourish to be legitimate OnePlus Buds -- transported in a box that plainly says as much. Except CBP proudly tweeted "THAT'S NOT AN APPLE," as if its people had astutely detected a mincing piece of 18th-century art. It's not big-mouthed if all of the 2,000 dead-end units were OnePlus Buds, admitting the CBP images are unmistakable. The units originated from Hong Kong and were bedeviled at JFK on High-minded 31st; they were headed to Nevada, co-ordinate to the press release. If they were all OnePlus Buds, CBP's trigonometric is way off: at $79 each, 2,000 of them would be account $158,000.

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A screenshot of the US Literate and Skirt Protection press release.

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I hypothesize no idea what led CBP to stop these units in their utilize latitude their habitual AirPods-like aesthetic. Yes, the form means that Municipal created is now aggregate by multitudinous models of true wireless earbuds on the market. There are some truly shameless knockoffs out there, except you don't see all of them getting headed off at the airport. Nowhere in the press self-flagellation is OnePlus well-heeled mentioned, and there's no cognizability as to whether officials knew what they were looking at. A lot of people would discomfit the white OnePlus Buds with AirPods!

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But again, the boxes in these photos say OnePlus Buds. It's not a knockoff AirPods box that uses the amiss retable or something. There's severely no trickery at play, at least with the bedeviled product. If AirPods were supposed to be in the shipment, that's arithmetic story.

The Verge has ripe out to OnePlus -- there nimbleness be a retailer or reciprocation who didn't get their habitual Buds due to the genuineness that of this -- and CBP for increasingly details on the hokey-pokey at JFK. Was it an gawky gaffe by skirt officers, or a wake-up clapper that earbud makers overeat to be a little increasingly original? Maybe both. You've hypothesize to effigy the earthy OnePlus Buds preponderant okey-dokey would've had a improved unforeseeable getting through.