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This is clearly copying, they downloaded and edited Apple’s ad and uploaded it and claim they uploaded the wrong one it was a simple mistake, ? Why were you editing Apple’s ad in the first place,,,,

The name very similar e changed to i

The idea the same, yet you claim you were not copying Apple’s idea, true you just ripped it off entirely.

Why can’t you just admit you are copying oh wait it was just a mistake you copied it by mistake yeh right and pigs fly
 
It might be common sense to us, but not to them. Heck, the latest Xiaomi CC phone is a blatant copy of Huawei's P30 series. They even copied their own comrades. .

The Mi CC9 is identical to the Xioami Mi 9 which was announced in February 2019. The P30 Pro was announced later than that.

If you want to be accurate both the P30 Pro and the Mi 9 are similar to the One Plus 6T but I haven't seen a One Plus fan cry about it in any way.
 
Copying the idea is fine. Copying the name and claiming you didn’t rip it off is ridiculous and Xiaomi deserves to get sued here. Yes, Memoji is a really trivial thing in the grand scheme of things, but if they don’t take action, companies will see how far they can go.

The worst part here is that China has brilliant people. Xiaomi must have brilliant people. Why copy anything at all?
 
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Chinese will do anything for money!

Entire fake "Apple Stores" have been found in China. Their own employees don't know they're not actually working for Apple.
 
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According to Xiaomi's public relations general manager, Xu Jieyun, this was all an accident. Xiaomi staff "uploaded the wrong content" to the sites, Xu Jieyun said on Weibo.

Article Link: Xiaomi Uses Official Apple Memoji Ads to Promote its 'Mimoji' Clone, Allegedly by Accident

Lol they’re so fired lol. How can staff make the accident to upload a YouTube video versus internal content appropriately hosted on shares?!
 
This will not only get the products blocked in the US. It will make Trump take more drastic measures or make any US president have to block chinese products in the US by default. Yikes! Trump is willing to burn it all down and that doesnt necessarily leave the current chinese govt unscathed.
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They do. They also make the iPhone.
They take the design and manufacturing process apple likely created and then build out the designs from apple.
 
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This will not only get the products blocked in the US. It will make Trump take more drastic measures or make any US president have to block chinese products in the US by default. Yikes! Trump is willing to burn it all down and that doesnt necessarily leave the current chinese govt unscathed.
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They take the design and manufacturing process apple likely created and then build out the designs from apple.
There are plenty of Chinese companies like oppo, Vivo, one plus and even Huwawei at times that design and manufacture their own products without copying.
 
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This has to stop. This really hurts the economy.

Nah it doesn't. I think they don't sell in the USA for this reason.

I think it mainly hurts Xiaomi, and I don't get at all why they're doing this.

Here in Asia they're big, and they're kinda Apple-themed... they make everything in white, their retail stores are a homage to Apple stores, they make nice phones and computers for cheap... but out of the Xi range, maybe less than 10% is 1:1 Apple copies... I didn't see any phones that were Apple clones, other than well they have a huge screen and a notch which is basically true for every single new phone hitting the market.

They're competing well with Huawei and Samsung and Oppo and some other chinese brands.

Their penchant for ripping off Apple ad campaigns and product designs is bizarre to me. They don't need to. They have other products that Apple doesn't even have, they have phones that don't look like Apple phones, and as far as I can tell their flagship phones aren't Apple rip offs.

This is just weird. "Because we can"?? Seems like a crap strategy if you ask me.

Xiaomis flagship phone is called the Redmi. And today I saw some very cheap very nice phones called "Realme"... a whole new brand. From China. The rip off artists getting ripped off? Coincidence? IDK.

I was phone hunting in the mall for my mom and honestly the biggest danger to Apple right now is how super cheap Android phones - $150-$200 - have huge beautiful screens, are running the latest Android, have 32 or 64GB. These are really nice phones. For $100 you get a really nice looking phone too, but somewhat lower specs - still looks nice enough that the difference between that $100 Android and the $1,100 XS Max is less than 10%, visually. Not all that much. Even as of last year, this wasn't true, but I feel we reached a peak phone turning point at this time.
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Why do they all have brown eyes? No blue or green eyes in sight.
Ummm... it's China, hello?!
 
They do. They also make the iPhone.
If by “make” you mean design—as OP was discussing—no they don’t. If you mean assemble, yes most iPhones are (currently) assembled in China.

However, it appears that some or all of that assembly will be moving to a lower-cost country. As wages in China have been increasing over the years it would seem to be inevitable.
 
Intellectual property is almost nonexistent in China, like USSR printing The Beatles records and not paying royalties
Except that USSR did pay for the rights to release Beatles records unlike Chinese Xiaomi stealing Apple’s Memoji.
 
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