You are likely correct. Right now Xiaomi is bringing lots of cash in a way that is not entirely kosher....With Xiaomi not caring about patent laws. It will invest this money in becoming stronger and better to the point they will sell everywhere in the world and obey patent laws.
IOW operate guerrilla fashion now and legit later. Time is on their side due to Chinese and Asians getting more prosperous. Xiaomi sells in Burma or Thailand? I doubt patent laws are enforced there. Apple is for the status seeking mincing elites of the First World. Like this clown/fruitcake/reviewer with his two hoop earrings.
The rest of the world is more practical
An example of dennisw’s acute knowledge of the Asian market:
“You obviously don’t know how big Manny Pacquiao is across Asia. Billions of Asians are going buy HP’s TouchPad due to him. Apple will lose 98% of their Asian sales. HP is in very very close cooperation with the Taiwanese geniuses producing a superior product. They have torn part hundreds of iPads and know what makes them tick. They know how to make it all work better and the result is the HP TouchPad”
Lots of cash? Where? They reported only the equivalent $7 million in profit for the entire year of 2014. Where is the "lots of cash," DennisW? You never let those difficult things called facts get in the way of your Apple bashing, do you?
What you are ignoring is that patent infringement is RETROACTIVE and they will reap that if they attempt to sell their products in the rest of the world. The owners of those intellectual properties WILL prevail and will exact their payments retroactively for the sales made in the past. This has happened before and the penalties can be extraordinarily HUGE. Samsung is still fighting one through the European court system that if they lose will cost them EVERY CENT they made on sales in Europe! That's BILLIONS of Euros. . . and that's just on a couple of patents they were found to have infringed.
Operating Guerrilla fashion now gets you no-where if you want to break into legitimacy later. That's like a Porn Star wanting to win an Oscar. It ain't gonna happen. Thailand is a huge enforcer of patent law. . . and the rest of the world is very much in line with IP. . . because they want to have THEIR IP protected too. You really don't know what you are talking about. Keep blithering. It makes you looks so foolish.