In China, a month before the release of the iPhone 8, they began selling covers for the new "apple" smartphones. To get information about the novelty and release an accessory before the release of the gadget, local manufacturers do not spare money for bribing insiders, according to China Daily.

In an interview with the owner of one of the stalls in the electronics market in Shenzhen, which is famous as a place where you can buy a fake expensive gadgets, said that it is not difficult to buy information about the new iPhone.

"After entering the iPhone 5 market, getting information about the next versions of the iPhone has become much easier," said a woman named Huang,.

She added that she has been selling cover cases for the iPhone 8 since August, and that they receive a large number of orders, mainly from foreign countries such as the US, Canada and others.

Another interlocutor, Liu Shihua, the manager of Shenzhen Aiqaa Technology, which specializes in the manufacture of accessories for computer electronics, said that by the time of the release of the iPhone 8, his firm had already released several million covers for the iPhone 8.

"If we correctly guessed and released suitable accessories for the new iPhone, after the appearance of smartphones on the market we will get a huge profit," he said..

According to the Chinese manufacturer, his company spent hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy information about the parameters of the iPhone 8.

"The price of information varies from several tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan.". Dailycomm: 10,000 yuan - this is about 1,5 thousand. US dollars, and 100,000 yuan - about 15 thousand. dollars]. The earlier information is received and the more accurate this information is, the more expensive it is for it, "Liu Shihua.

As a rule, the sources are producers from the supply channel of Apple, but further in the subject the interlocutor of China Daily refused to go deep.

Nobody guarantees 100-percent accuracy of the information, so the one who buys the information is very at risk, acknowledged Liu Shihua.

He also said that one day his company suffered from inaccurate information and lost 1-2 million yuan, as he released inappropriate covers for the model iPhone SE.

Apple always surrounds the release of the new iPhone with a dense veil of secrecy, but leaks occur despite the measures taken to preserve secrecy. So, by the time of the announcement of the iPhone 8 and the anniversary model of the iPhone X, analysts had known almost all the features of gadgets and even the planned price level.