Xiaomi Pledges 'War of Life and Death' Against Apple to Become World's Biggest Smartphone Brand

[elbert]

Like all Android brands they are welcome to the sub-$399 market.

 

[FindingAvalon]

Apple is basically a Chinese company based in the U.S.A.

Nope

 

[no_idea]

Does Xiami have any Apple wipes yet?

 

[trusso]

Chinese companies won't see a penny from me

Actually, they already have.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Bustycat]

Are you OK

 

[Pezimak]

Good luck to them. Will be interesting to see how they do it if they can. I wouldn't buy one of their phones, better choices for Android out there I think.

 

[BF1M]

Let's remember that the iPhone couldn't copy and paste text for a full two years before we start calling things jokes. And again, for what feels like the millionth time, I didn't say they didn't improve or popularise smartphones, I said they didn't invent them. Read what I actually wrote.

Hell, the iPhone wasn’t even the first mostly all touch screen smart phone. LG beat them to the punch if I recall. Refinement? Sure. Invention? Nope.

 

[Pezimak]

So they iterated on the smartphone then.

They made a really good phone, but that’s not inventing the smartphone category.

IBM invented the smart phone category if I recall, app stores and WiFi on phones with touch screens and computer like OS's existed before the iPhone did.
Although Apple did turn it all on its head with the interface and using your finger and how it all seamlessly fitted together. They took it to the next level.

 

[aidler]

As if I'd ever buy a Xi phone over any other smartphone. ?

 

[jonblatho]

I think a big part of what iPhone did was re-invent(to use our favorite buzz word)what mainstream meant for the smartphone space. Pre-iPhone mainstream meant business, military, tech. Now it’s pre-teens Haha

I’ve been reading this comment thread. You spent the better part of your morning petulantly arguing semantics over whether Apple “basically invented” the smartphone — when the intended meaning is fairly obvious — and proceeded to say basically the same thing that that person was saying.

 

[Infinitewisdom]

Most of the comments on here are not going to age well. People need to realize that Xiaomi actually does a phenomenal job of coming out with some really solid products in categories way beyond smartphones. These guys definitely have the design and manufacturing chops both on the hardware and software side to achieve this goal of theirs. There's no question.

Check back in 3 years and see if I'm right.

 

[GadgetBen]

I won't be buying their phone whilst their government operates concentration camps for 're-education' and covers up abuse claims. Amongst other reasons.

 

[webkit]

This comment will get me no fans here I bet but I think Apple can make an iPhone with a killer physical keyboard and it would sell like a mad. The keyboard on the Pixi was pretty good.

It might sell well but I doubt Apple would ever do it. Even if it was just one model, it would come too close to them acknowledging that a phone onscreen keyboard isn't the best and only way to go.

 

[kemal]

Is he planning to bloody Apple's head against a wall of steel or what?

 

[BF1M]

I’ve been reading this comment thread. You spent the better part of your morning petulantly arguing semantics over whether Apple “basically invented” the smartphone — when the intended meaning is fairly obvious — and proceeded to say basically the same thing that that person was saying.

Actually I didn’t. Read what you quoted again. I said basically, in my opinon, they changed the market more then the product. At no point did I say they invented the smart phone.

 

[skitidetdu]

As far as I remember Apple never set out to be the biggest, just the best.

 

[webkit]

IBM invented the smart phone category if I recall, app stores and WiFi on phones with touch screens and computer like OS's existed before the iPhone did.
Although Apple did turn it all on its head with the interface and using your finger and how it all seamlessly fitted together. They took it to the next level.

Yes, IBM had the Simon in the mid-1990s with an onscreen keyboard, network connectivity, phone, etc.

 

[BF1M]

It might sell well but I doubt Apple would ever do it. Even if it was just one model, it would come too close to them acknowledging that a phone onscreen keyboard isn't the best and only way to go.

Oh it’ll never happen. I guess I should have said if anyone could do it right, it would be Apple.

 

[BillCarson]

This argument is totally non sequitur. If one owns a Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc, it's a Microsoft Windows computer. Similarly, if one's phone is a Samsung, LG, Vivo, etc, it's actually just an Android device...

...This Xaomi CEO is basically saying that he's in a "life or death" struggle to make Andriod the biggest mobile OS in China, which it probably already is..

 

[BF1M]

Note I said “for hours on end.” I’m on the last bit of my lunch break, so hopped on here because I had nothing better to do. If you have a response to something, sure, go ahead and post it, by all means. It’s spending a significant portion of one’s day — in this case, hours — arguing back and forth over the meaning of a single word that I was pointing out is utterly absurd.

….lol

Sorry that’s just funny..

 

[BF1M]

My guess is he’s a teenager. He just keeps repeating the same nonsense over and over.

…both me and my hairline wish.

 

[PC_tech]

Chinese companies won't see a penny from me

Except you do pay them, indirectly but you do regardless.

 

[aknabi]

This guy has been watching too much CCP propaganda and thinks he's coming off way cooler than he really is. I bet he was the kid in high school that takes gym class way too seriously.

Yup... and still missed every free throw and layup... IMO just comes off looking like a Dufus... and would never buy a ChinaCo phone.

 

[Surne]

How do they intend to copy Apple’s approach on privacy?

I'm sure they'll have a competent form of government abusable software installed that will compete with the one Apple intends to install on it's future iPhones.

 

[PC_tech]

the Windows phones of the era were dying in uselessness. RIM was still using a side mounted wheel on their basic phones. The interface and approach to making the smart phone usable was so radically different that yes, they pretty much can claim to have invented it. Sure, there were items on the market that sorta kinda maybe looked the same, but the holistic approach was so well developed that it was a radical departure in the experience of using a phone.

They can’t pretty much claim they invented it, they didn’t ?