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Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China
New submitter redseo writes Xiaomi, known as the Apple of China, and recently enjoying its new-found fame and glory in the Indian market, has achieved yet another milestone. It has overtaken Samsung, to become China's best selling smartphone manufacturer, in Q2 2014. Xiaomi sold total of 15 million smartphones in China in Q2, which is a three-fold increase from a year ago.
That's pretty good for a company founded only four years ago, with no stores of its own. (And though Xiaomi's phones are not widely sold in the U.S., they're offered by third-party sellers on Amazon and elsewhere; CNet has mostly good things to say about the company's Mi 3.)
Maybe they'll get some retail room for US carriers too. Doesn't matter what country you pick you're going to be spied on, might as well get the devices on the cheap while your privacy is being invaded.
For decades the best selling car in China was made by a Chines company, but strangely looked exactly like a Buick which was being manufactured in China by GM.
Telling me that the best selling product is a home grown product in a controlled economy is useless, sorry.
Then the hype is spread to India, which has massive amounts of poverty. If the Chinese made phone is cheap, guess what phone Indian consumers will purchase (considering many people can't afford a phone at all, let alone a cell phone)? No big shock, the Chinese made phone.. *sigh*
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Someone else is better at ripping stuff off from Apple, and cheaper. Ouch.
You cannot change battery or add micro SD memory card. yep sounds like the crap that apple sells.. ;)
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And pretty soon we'll all be driving Trumpchis -- tell us something we don't know. China will the dominant economy before the decade is out, and will be the economic powerhouse of 2020 to 2030, after which they will implode.
Of course, most Americans won't be around at all to see that happen, as the USA will become a dangerous 3rd world shithole by 2030.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I can't wait to hear from all the pundits why this means Apple—and only Apple—is doomed.
After all, it's not as if they're taking significantly more marketshare and profitshare from Samsung than from Apple or anything...oh, no; every single event that can be broadly construed to be in the cellphone or consumer technology space, no matter how loosely related to Apple, can only ever mean that Apple is in trouble, and all its competitors are poised to take over in everything.
:-P
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Competition in the USA is the most hated word for local duo/monopolies.
or they already hacked it and put spying software?
Someone else is better at ripping stuff off from Apple, and cheaper. Ouch.
Except the only thing ripped from Apple is the dog and pony show...they ripped off Samsungs business model. The reality is though Samsung have more to worry about from Lenovo, which seems the most likely to break from the pack of hopefuls.
MIUI costs less to develop than iOS. Why? MIUI is open and accepts 3rd party contributions, while iOS does not (in the places that count).
How long can a business lose market share with a more expensive product? We should ask Microsoft.
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In case you didn't know, xiaomi means "little grain of rice" in mandarin. Everyone loves rice!
Apple = cute fruit that cannot possibly offend anyone
Brilliant!
I can't wait to hear from all the pundits why this means Apple—and only Apple—is doomed.
Actually the only real information is Apple AND Samsung are both having their market share eaten up by Android,
Apple has the lions share at the top end...Google may eject them from the Android market..Tablet sales are slowing
There is no top end or bottom end...there is just a market for smartphones it is why we are discussing a Chinese branded(not just made in China like the iphone). The proof is we are in an article discussing a phone company as the new Apple...at a fraction of the price ...with more premium features.
Google cannot eject Samsung from the Android market. In fact quite the opposite Google for mow is reliant on Samsung. In fact tomorrow Samsung could produce an Android phone without Google like Amazon and Microsoft...
iPad sales only are slowing. As we continue to say there is no high end low end of the the market...just the market, and Apple have simply priced themselves out of it. Tablets continue to sell very well. If we include the new phablet market..then even faster than ever.
they do have stores in China. I believe it's around 18, and they look like apple stores
That's a quite naive point of view
Really? When was the last time an American was arrested on American soil by the Chinese police?
Even if you spend time in both countries (as I do), you have a far greater chance of being arrested by American police. On a per capita basis, American citizens are four times as likely to be incarcerated as Chinese citizens
When you were still in Shanghai, you needn't worry of being arrested by the American authority but now you have moved back to the States, please, Shanghaibill, do not say what you said so loudly
I do fear for your safety
PS. I'd continue to stay outside of the USA if I were you
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Chinese history is built upon artists who can copy the master's work. Xiaomi, and many others fit this roll perfectly, and we should expect nothing less. The there will always be a Chinese copy of a product or art form that has achieved greatness. The real question is if a Chinese company has the potential to break out of this roll, and become the great product that others copy.
... it becomes apparent what has been going on:
a) foreign industry allowed in to Chinese markets; ... there's a difference?) goes to work stealing IP and passing it on to chosen Chinese industry;
b) Chinese intelligence (government and industrial
c) foreign industry gets hit with exclusions (eg. MS and Apple banned for government use) and legal harassment (MS target of anti-trust investigation); and
d) Chinese industry rises to dominate the market (Xiaomi - Apple of China).
Nothing wrong with all that, a society/country looking out for itself. In fact, it might be considered admirable that they so closely protect their autonomy, refusing to let themselves be dominated by foreign corporate interests.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
then this phone would really be truly wonderful
The chinese communist party is on its last straw of survival, facing severe and increasing stress from all fronts:
1. external opposite forces from all other countries in the world.
2. internal mutiny from all chinese living places e.g. mainland china, hong kong, taiwan, xinjiang, macau etc.
3. its own economy can no further develop to higher level than mass manufacturing, due to complete absence of law and common morals.
4. china's mass manufacturing itself is going away due to increasing cost and hostile business environment.
4. its many suppressed problems from the past all surfacing at the same time e.g.
- severe pollution everywhere in air and water and food etc
- skyrocketing bad debts of all kinds everywhere
- rapidly aging and gender-imbalanceed demographics
- world's no.1 wealth inequality
- complete absence of soft power
- mass exodus in all levels of society, of all able chinese with talents and money
- complete absence of common morals in all chinese from brainwashing by the CCP etc etc.