One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager buyers tired of waiting on Apple’s release, was Fei Lam. How did Lam hear about it? “I came back from school today and saw your email,” he tells Fast Company via chat message, adding, “Lol.” For someone who allegedly made contacts in China to import iPhone parts before Apple, started his own business (WhiteiPhone4Now.com), and pulled in tens of thousands of dollars in revenue–sometimes as much as $8,000 a day –it’s easy to forget that Lam is just a teenage boy still living with his parents
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Teen Who Sold White iPhone Kits Reveals How Apple Hunted Him Down