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Re:Apple’s China Problem by blacksmith_tb on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:36PM (#14275236)
Without wading into a my-anecdotes-against yours battle, I think most would agree that at this point Chinese smartphone shoppers have options from Xiaomi and Huawei among others[1] that are of equal quality to Apple hardware (and may be better designed for their market).

1: http://time.com/4547129/china-smartphone-market-oppo-vivo-xi...

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Re:Apple’s China Problem by bobsam on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:51PM (#14275368)
Huawei version of Android even looks like iOS.

I wish they had copied the more elegant windowsphone UI instead.

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Re:Apple’s China Problem by threeseed on Friday May 05, 2017 @04:03PM (#14276417)
The world has access to phones from Xiaomi and Huawei.

If they were equal to iPhones they would be selling out in Ireland, Australia, Cambodia - everywhere. Guess what ? They aren't equal to iPhones.

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Re:Apple’s China Problem by user5994461 on Friday May 05, 2017 @04:48PM (#14276728)
Xiaomi are not available for sale outside of China. (Well, not without jumping through hoops and weird resellers).

They have zero name recognition worldwide and the platform is fitted to the china market. There are some minor localisation and translation work to go global. Most important of all: They lack the brand recognition (westerner are very sensitive to branding and associate china with cheap shit).

Outside of that, they do S6/iphone7 equivalents for half the price.

They could blow away every single android manufacturers single handedly if they went global.

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