Xiaomi Takes Aim at Apple With New MacBook Pro and iPhone X Rivals

[5105973]

Why?
No, seriously. Why do you think that?

I mean by all means pick the Xiaomi phone apart, but don't just make things up.

I'm pretty sure it was a joke. I know better but thought the same thing myself when I saw the design.

Edit...whoa, I stand corrected, too. It's NOT a joke...they really designed it that way?

And people thought the notch was lame! And Samsung's placement of fingerprint scanners. They are not optimal, but this takes the cake! If it's true.

 

[MH01]

So you think Jony Ive woke up one day (or Phil Schiller came into his office) and said let’s remove all the ports on the next MBP so we can make more money off of dongles? You don’t have to like that Apple rips the band aid off quickly rather than slowly but this isn’t about dongles. I’m sure Ive would love it if he never had to design another dongle again.

do you think there was a technical / design constraint that prevented them from adding additional ports?

Funny you say its not about dongles, cause our company choose not to upgrade just for that reason, the amount of extra dongles they would need to get for every employee. Really ads up when you have thousands of employees. They got 2015 machines.

 

[ksnell]

I just find it sad that they're blatantly ripping off entire designs from Apple.

Except for the ports and the price. They went out on their own there.

 

[rpe33]

Android 7 and up is actually very fast and fluid. Windows 10 is also good these days.

That is a negative on both.

 

[arkitect]

I'm pretty sure it was a joke. I know better but thought the same thing myself when I saw the design.

No, apparently this person is quite serious… though looking at their source it seems it is still open to debate.
I think the phone will work just fine "right side" up.
But Apple fans can be a bit strident in their Apple defence sometimes.

 

[pika2000]

This is what I have been talking about with the Chinese changing tech into a cheap commodity. Prices are going to drop hard. The Chinese are making very decent gadgets nowadays that are almost as good but less than half the price of an equivalent Samsung or Apple device. Makes you really think twice by dropping $1000 on a Note 8 or iPhone 8 when you can pocket the 500 bucks.

Yes, the Chinese OEMs have been hitting the likes of Samsung very hard. Why buy a Samsung when a similar-specced Chinese phone can be had for a lot less, and it runs exactly the same apps.

Apple still has a differentiating factor, that's is ios. Plus since Apple is targeting different price bracket than most Chinese OEMs, Apple is doing okay, for now.

 

[5105973]

No, apparently this person is quite serious… though looking at their source it seems it is still open to debate.
I think the phone will work just fine "right side" up.
But Apple fans can be a bit strident in their Apple defence sometimes.

Yeah I saw Rogifan's post and corrected my original post. Good grief that's odd if it's true that it works that way.

 

[macTW]

Sad and disgusting.

 

[Guda.FL]

Why? Do what works and sells. Chinese love the industrial design of Apple but hate the price. Build something's that looks like an Apple, feels like an Apple, but costs half as much and it's gonna sell.

Hell, if I didn't abhor Windows I'd buy one. But alas, I hate, hate, hate, windows.

My thoughts too, i would buy it. Some people here buy macbooks and format macos for windows anyway.

 

[9081094]

Proves that Apple did not get rid of SD card et al. cuz of thinness alone. Adapters worth 150$ are built into this Xiaomi thing. Amazing! Apple should copy them now...

It shows that Apple is charging lots of Apple tax. After 5 years and minimal change to it's designs... no wonder others copy and leapfrog Apple.

 

[The Game 161]

They wouldn't even come to UK anyway

 

[shaunp]

Totally unimpressed. Why copy Apple when their current designs have been criticised for taking too much of minimalist approach - not enough ports, poor key travel, etc. This is the problem with Apple - they make a mess of a product and still they get copied. Do something original.

 

[yg17]

Anyone who is saying the Mi Mix 2 is a copy of anything Apple has ever done is a blithering idiot.

It is an updated version of their previous Mi Mix phone that was out long before iPhone X rumors were even a thing. If anyone was copying, it was Apple.

 

[satchmo]

This seems to suggest, there were/are no physical limitations preventing the MacBook Pro to have just as many ports as this Xiaomi.

It was a deliberate decision to leave things out and to move technology forward.
I just think there could have been a middle ground...like 2 USB-C ports, and one USB 3 port.
Ease the transition, so to speak.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I wouldn't buy one but it clearly shows why Apple has so much money in the bank. Huge profit margins that moves the money from the customers account into Apples. Good for Apple.

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Cutting the screen in half? What are you talking about? Plus this phone has a bezel. It’s at the bottom which forces you to have to turn the phone upside down for selfies (and anything else you might need to use a front facing camera for). That’s retarded.

The front facing camera can be above or below the screen. I just turned my phone 180 degrees and took a perfectly ok selfie.

 

[djlythium]

That quote doesn't mean what you think it does, unless you take it completely at face value. Sick of reading it whenever somebody blatantly rips off Apple's design.

Wait: what else could it possibly mean? Seems SJ was being pretty clear.

 

[justperry]

Worth considering were it not for 3 things: 1. Disappointing display - only 1080p and the obnoxious aspect ratio (16:9 instead of 16:10). 2. No ThunderBolt - at least not stated (USB-C != TB). 3. It's made by a Chinese company - actual quality is uncertain, not to mention trust - can you be sure there is no spyware embedded in silicone in their products?
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In regards to OS, the phone is a problem (Android), but with the laptop you can always blow away Windows and install Linux (which is really, really good these days).

So there were never built in backdoors installed in american software.

I really don't understand these comments, the USA is no better than China, maybe worse even.

 

[jmh600cbr]

why didn't apple hide the speaker and camera like this?

 

[wordup60]

"Xiao Mi" is Mandarin for "sincere flattery"

 

[NightFox]

Surely they can't get away with this level of blatant copying? I'm sure Apple's lawyers will be in touch

Yes, like Land Rover's lawyers got in touch over the LandWind X7...

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Apple's lawyers are powerless in China, and when you've got a government who's got the Chinese economy at heart, then you may as well not even bother.

 

[x0vash0x]

So there where never built in backdoors installed in american software.

I really don't understand these comments, the USA is no better than China, maybe worse even.

The difference being, Lenovo and the likes would do it in secret whereas FaceBook and Google just ask you politely to give them all your information.

 

[daabido]

Surely they can't get away with this level of blatant copying? I'm sure Apple's lawyers will be in touch

This is exactly why they are only available from resellers outside of China. If they put up a shingle in any industrial country with a modicum of intellectual property law they would be sued into oblivion for all the patents they are infringing upon.

 

[k2k koos]

someone will turn this into a Hackintosh..

 

[calzon65]

I just find it sad that they're blatantly ripping off entire designs from Apple.

I wonder how Xerox felt when they saw MacOS.