3 things that the VP of Android could conceivably know that could confer a material advantage to Xiaomi (and/or a disadvantage to other OEMs): 1) Google's futu

3 things that the VP of Android could conceivably know that could confer a material advantage to Xiaomi (and/or a disadvantage to other OEMs): 1) Google's future strategic plans for Android (itself and in relation to Chrome) 2) knowledge of what some big OEMs are working on (esp likely re: Nexus hardware) 3) the roadmap for Motorola (corporate "firewall" between Google and Motorola being, well, less than robust...) he could know all of these, some of them, or even none of them. But it is certainly not outside the bounds of possibility that he could know these things.