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"Skeptics say the company produces low-price iPhone imitations with no significant software or hardware advantages." I must say that compared to other low-pric
by Juha 13y ago
"Skeptics say the company produces low-price iPhone imitations with no significant software or hardware advantages."
I must say that compared to other low-price phones in china like Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Hisense I'd rather take Xiaomi. They seem to pay more attention to quality than others and they do show innovativeness with MIUI for example. And more importantly they seem to have more and more of their own innovation in each product generation. For example their MI2S offers exchangeable colored backs that I haven't seen with many other companies (Nokia maybe).
I used to think NYT is respectable paper, but with words like "aping" in the title of an article like this I'm giving up on that thought.
- touristtam 13y ago"He is also selling millions of mobile phones that look a lot like iPhones [...] his company sold seven million mobile phones last year by using designs that mimic the look and feel of the iPhone and using marketing that seems right out of Apple’s playbook." A bit like the Samsung Galaxy S3/S4 are resembling the iPhone. The Xiaomi M1/M2 are far from copycat GooPhone and the like, while the specification of the latest device from Xiaomi are matching or surpassing the Android competition (checking for yourself the different review on the internet) and the price is one of the lowest for this type of high end hand held device (we are talking about ~300 USD here). I can not remember as well when Apple played so well on scarcity of supply for a new product, like Xiaomi and their flash sales.
- Juha 13y agoYes, I agree that nobody would mistake Xiaomi for an iPhone so it's hard to call it a clone. They have clear logo, different button positions and the back looks totally different. It didn't seem like the author had actually used a Xiaomi phone himself.