[Swordmaker]

Xiaomi is chopping up Samsung's China market at the low end. . . and Apple is eating it at the high end. But Xiaomi is not making any profit in doing it. They posted the equivalent of only $7 million in profit last year. . . and that was with not paying any licensing fees or royalties on the Standards Essential Patents or non-Standards patents they are infringing. Xiaomi ran into a legal buzz-saw when they attempted to open a new market for their phones and tablets in India where the rule of law is very strong. There, they had many of the imports seized and products turned away at the port of entry for infringing the patents held by Cisco, Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, and a myriad of other cell phone makers who developed the technologies and are due payment for their technology that every other maker pays. — Swordmaker

[Swordmaker]

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[dennisw]

The author looks gayer than Tim Cooks. Author wears two hoop earnings. The only reason I looked up his image was this article’s tone made me suspicious//// Xiomi has a good business model for less developed nations beyond patent laws. Like I give a bleep they don’t pay Tim Cooks any royalties.....lol

[RayChuang88]

I believe that when Xiaomi phones finally make to the Western world (e.g., Western Europe and North America), they won't be anything like the phones you see now. Expect a truly unique design and likely running a pure Google version of Android just like the Google Play editions of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One (M8) phones.

[GeronL]

Remember when Samsung was the new Apple?

Samsung spent about 10 times more on advertising in 2012 or something than Apple did.

Samsung is the worlds biggest advertiser apparently.

I would rather buy something from South Korea than from China or San Fransicko

[GeronL]

That is a lot of verbiage griping about a company “trying to be like Apple” when its clearly not being like Apple.

[x]

Xiaomi don't play that!