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China still hasn't learned how "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" works. If you want to do something evil and get away with it, you first need to focus purely on gai
by 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
China still hasn't learned how "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" works. If you want to do something evil and get away with it, you first need to focus purely on gaining market share. You need to reach a critical mass where people are completely dependent on your product. If you try to do evil before it reaches critical mass, people can still stop using your product. If China waited 5 more years before pulling crap like this Xiaomi could have been bigger than Apple or Google.
- davesque 5y agoIn that sense, doing things properly requires some detachment from the end goal. I think the CCP is too fearful of the imagined outcome of cultural dissolution and loss of control to achieve the patience required for that detachment.
- dirtyid 5y agoUS affiliated PRC containment bloc with try to malign any PRC brands that becomes successful regardless. Why do you think all these hit pieces started around time of Xiaomi record growth (80% in Q2 2021) when they passed Apple in market share and is catching up to Samsung for #1. It's the Huawei playbook of fabricating false security threats for useful idiots. At the end the day, these countries will go zero to negative sum to deny PRC access, i.e. US would rather deal with forest fires than use DJI drones. Thankfully for PRC brands, there's still ~90% of the world to sell to.