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Chinese Phone Maker Xiaomi Deletes a Public MIUI vs Android One Twitter Poll After Voting Didn't Go Its Way (betanews.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internet-doesn't-forget dept.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which sells handsets at razor thin margins, is increasingly dominating in its home market and emerging places such as India and Indonesia. To make money, the company relies on a range of homegrown software features in its Android-based MIUI operating system. In a surprising move earlier this week, the company asked its Twitter followers to choose between MIUI and Android One (which runs pure Android OS). Things didn't go as it had planned. From a report: Presumably the company was rather hoping that Twitter users would vote for its own MIUI which it could then rub in Google's face -- but the poll actually went against Xiaomi. Rather than leave the results of the vote up for anyone to see, the company decided to simply delete it and pretend it never happened. Take a look at the Xiaomi account on Twitter, and you'll see no hint that any such poll has ever taken place. But over on Reddit, there's a thread which was started by someone posting a link to the poll. In the comments, one Redditor noticed after a period of voting that: "So far it's 53-47 for android one."

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  1. Not bad by ebonum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Strange. To me, 53-47 for Android One is huge win for Xiaomi flavored OS. That's a small spread. Xiaomi is close.
    Try the poll with Microsoft's OS vs Android. Then you will see what losing looks like.

  2. ROMs without GPL violation by CritterNYC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I prefer the Android ROMs without GPL violations.

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  3. How does Xiaomi get to Twitter? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Informative

    Twitter is banned in China. How did Xiaomi do this?

    Their MIUI is a joke anyway, it's as close as they can get to ripping off Apple and implementing it in Android. They got banned from XDA-developers.com for refusing to follow the GPL and release the source code modifications they made. Their official forums are godawful and difficult to read or follow.

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  4. Lesson to be learned: by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried. ;)

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  5. Amateurs by McFortner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Everybody knows that what they should have done was fake the results like every other company does.

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  6. China's Samsung! by hjf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Xiaomi is the chinese equivalent of Samsung. They make EVERYTHING, from phones to air conditioners, from robot vacuums to RGB light bulbs.

    In a couple of years we'll see much more of this company. Their products are actually quite good. So far i've used their dirt-cheap "smart plugs" and the incredibily niche but super cool "air conditioner companion" (a device to turn your regular remote control based AC into a "smart" air conditioner).

    So far they seem to be China-only with their products. But soon we'll see more of them.

  7. Come on, show me by Provocateur · · Score: 2

    XiaoMi the results, baby, but show me...

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