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Re:A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Be... by contingencies on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:33AM (#8382079)
My wife and I were in the market for a phone and wandered around a large phone market in a second tier city two weeks ago. We considered the top end Samsung and Apples, but eventually bought a Xiaomi for under 900RMB ($145). It has a decent camera, a fast processor, dual SIMs. I would have preferred a FirefoxOS device but there's none available here yet.
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Re:A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Be... by seanmcdirmid on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:38AM (#8382088)
Not to mention Xiaomi has the best copy of iOS look and feel that you can buy.
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Re:A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Be... by contingencies on Monday September 29, 2014 @02:54PM (#8384517)
I think this is a foreign media myth. It's Android through and through, very obviously. Honestly, I have no idea how anyone could confuse it with an attempt at iOS copying, it's has zero similarity to my eye.
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Re:A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Be... by seanmcdirmid on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:29PM (#8385095)
the copying is overt, the only people denying it are xiaomi themselves. They obviously can't enter western markets with their products as is, the lawsuits would be too easy.
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Re:A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Be... by purpletoned on Monday September 29, 2014 @08:14AM (#8382538)
While that is true, why would you assume that the poster bought the phone for that reason? He might have bought the phone for any number of reasons such as the low price, decent specs etc.
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Re:A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Be... by seanmcdirmid on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:14AM (#8382754)
A big part of the xiaomi experience is decent (if somewhat copied) industrial design and UX, otherwise many cheap android Chinese phones can be bought with decent specs.
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