The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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Agree with jacket above. For me at least, "shanzhai" also connotes a kind of DIY spirit borne out of aspiration, ingenuity and, by extension, income...like the brothers in Hebei province who build F1 cars out of scrap. In effect, it's like thumbing your nose at the established players and saying "I may never be able to afford the real thing, but that won't stop me".
I think shanzhai has been debased to a degree by using it as an all-inclusive definition for cloning a well-known product or brand.