Chinese manufacturers OTOH... (yeah, I know it ain't easy since materials and goods are still made in china)
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Xiaomi Pledges 'War of Life and Death' Against Apple to Become World's Biggest Smartphone Brand
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There are plenty of Android devices that have excellent hardware. The S22 Ultra for example. However, the software matters more and for those of us in Norte Americano, iMessage is a requirement.
If Apple made something like my old Nokia E7, it’d be an instant buy for me. But I wouldn’t go as far as saying that it would sell like mad.
"Lei explained that Xiaomi seeks to become the world's largest smartphone vendor within three years.
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"[We aim to] fully benchmark against Apple in [terms of] product and experience, and become China's biggest high-end brand in the next three years"
Is the first statement an incorrect assumption/traduction from MacRumors?
If the second statement is true, then their goal is not to become the largest smartphone vendor, but the largest HIGH-END smartphone vendor... very different!
In order to become the "largest" overall, you would have to be the leader in low-end and mid-range phones - to achieve volume sales - which it seems to me Xiaomi is not or no longer targeting as their main focus.
As far as becoming a high-end phone leader in the world, you just have to be the leader in China which when you're a government-approved entity like Xiaomi is very easy to achieve. CCP money will flow in, raw materials and parts costs will be sold penny on the dollar and sales will boom by severely undercutting Apple in price as long as the phones have the proper software and firmware in it (CCP control). Very easy to achieve with subsidies from a government...
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"[We aim to] fully benchmark against Apple in [terms of] product and experience, and become China's biggest high-end brand in the next three years"
Is the first statement an incorrect assumption/traduction from MacRumors?
If the second statement is true, then their goal is not to become the largest smartphone vendor, but the largest HIGH-END smartphone vendor... very different!
In order to become the "largest" overall, you would have to be the leader in low-end and mid-range phones - to achieve volume sales - which it seems to me Xiaomi is not or no longer targeting as their main focus.
As far as becoming a high-end phone leader in the world, you just have to be the leader in China which when you're a government-approved entity like Xiaomi is very easy to achieve. CCP money will flow in, raw materials and parts costs will be sold penny on the dollar and sales will boom by severely undercutting Apple in price as long as the phones have the proper software and firmware in it (CCP control). Very easy to achieve with subsidies from a government...
Indeed. Would rather say they revolutionised the smartphone to what we have now rather than invent.
Apple certainly helped revitalise what was a category that was lingering due to a high focus on features rather than usability.
Looking forward to what Xiaomi bring, if the Xiaomi 11 Ultra is anything to go by this should be very good. Competition is good for all of us.
If you value “privacy” highly, you should run away from anything that connects to the internet.
There was nothing basic about how Apple invented the modern smartphone.
I would think that most people who buy an iPhone are not so much buying it for the device, but for the operating system and integration with other Apple products. I don't care how impressive a camera a phone has if it's running Android I'm not interested.
