Re: Movie studio branding
And HBO can fumble their own content mid-play. The first three seasons of Game of Thrones were great fare, but the two dickheads producing it cut so many corners and rushed though the book-based content as if several dozen more are just about to be released, that they are now lost in Westeros without any way of getting back to the original GRRM stories. It's not easy to make these things, but it can be done on the cheap, and HBO is famous for being cheap. Look at The Sopranos. It was a PERFECT series for them; no book readers to fuck over with made up "new story lines," not a period piece, and shot all in dingy, dirty, dirt-cheap New Jersey USA. With dragons, you get problems. It is known.
Love those fake Apple stores in China! What an odd country to blatantly honor a tech company they wish they could out-class, and can't. Yet look at those awful Chinese phones with obvious security lapses built in, and everything except "Designed in Cupertino" on it, including pre-installed state-sponsored hacking/monitoring apps. For your "safety." At least the NSA/CIA/FIB [sic] have to hack into my phone remotely, or intercept my data at peering points, rather than it being built-in by a faulty company to satisfy the glorious leader. I doubt even tRump's security mandates can manage that level of infiltration to companies that don't even consider him sane.
Be on the lookout for fake Microsoft Stores, complete with 10 to 1 associate to guest ratio! And fake Huawei Stores in the USA. It could happen. Okay, it will never happen.