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Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Says It is Working To Enter the US Market Next Year (reuters.com)
China's Xiaomi is pressing ahead with plans to enter the United States next year, saying its U.S. connections should help the consumer-focused smartphone maker skirt the political resistance met by some of its compatriot rivals. From a report: Senior Vice President Wang Xiang told Reuters on Tuesday that the U.S. market was "very attractive" and that the firm was adding engineering resources to develop versions of its handsets that are compatible with U.S. cellphone networks. "Next year we hope we can do something there," Wang said, adding talks with U.S. carriers are yet to produce concrete agreements.
Well that's a given. But would you rather have Chinese backdoors, or NSA/CIA backdoors? If someone is going to backdoor my device, I'd rather it be the Chinese, as I care quite a bit less about what they'll do with my data. Obviously if 'no backdoors' was an option that would be even better; but come on, it's 2018. As we celebrate our nations birth today in America, most of our government continues, on both sides, to wipe their ass with our Constitution as they shit all over the principles this nation was founded on.
I've got a Xiaomi Max 2 from Banggood.com, I think. 5.3A battery, large screen, battery lasts SOT for a day (that's 24 hours SOT) and not on minimal brightness. Charges up in 3 hours or less. There's a few add-ons, I've activated all of them. I would have added in APKs if they were missing.
The ONLY thing it doesn't do is run on the Verizon network -- wrong frequencies. It works fine on WiFi and VoiP, and I have a small Verizon hotspot that fits in my pocket as well. (That's slightly annoying, but the phone makes up for it.)
Samsung should be worried. Apple might be worried, but their users are addicts anyway, so probably not.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
I wonder if there would be a market for a US company that was "beyond reproach" whose business was to certify foreign tech as being "safe"?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
There is no way this company or any other company with Chinese ties will be entering the US market any time soon. Unless China finds a way to appease the US government over the rampant IP theft and the ownership conditions placed on US companies operating in the China market. Congress already put a stop to Trump giving ZTE a chance to re-enter the US market and in their zeal to manacle Trump they have made it politically impossible to be seen accommodating anything Chinese related. Congress has also made it impossible for the US to entertain better relations with Russia. Although Russia is a non-player on the global stage when compared to the US, China, India, Japan, or even Israel. The state of California has a higher GDP than Russia.
Would, say, the government of Iceland have been able to do that *in New Zealand*? No, but it could do it in Iceland.
You're totally missing the point.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."