Xiaomi takes on Apple.

Thor187 said:
Of course its relevant here
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http://www.businessinsider.com/xiaomi-us-europe-market-arrival-2015-1

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi says that it won't be selling its smartphones in the US or Europe for "a few years."

The BBC has an interview with Xiaomi's Vice President of International, Hugo Barra. They asked him why the company's new flagship phone, the Mi Note, isn't on sale in America.

"It's probably going to be a few years until we reach these tier one markets," Barra said.

Barra went on to explain that "We think that our value proposition of building very high-specification products and selling them almost at cost has much higher economic and social impact in the developing markets."

It doesn't look like Xiaomi has any immediate plans to expand into the US and Europe. Barra says that the company is "not quite at the level" where it has plans to expand into the competitive western smartphone markets.

Xiaomi sells its smartphones in markets like China, India, and Indonesia, where consumers are used to paying lower prices for Android smartphones. If it starts to sell its devices in the US, then it would face criticism from Apple, which has previously accused the company of copying its designs.
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Note that Xiaomi overtook Samsung's #1 position in China.

They also sell to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. They are yet to breach Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Turkey. How is it relevant here a how are you going to exchange an iPhone locally?

Prior Xiaomi's statement, Apple announced:

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/Apple-brings-distribution-giant-Brightstar-to-India/articleshow/45999027.cms

NEW DELHI: Electronics giant Apple, the maker of iPhones and iPad, has decided to rope in global retail major Brightstar to sell its devices in India. Apple is looking to increase sales from 1 million units achieved in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, to as many as 7 million units by 2018.
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and by opening several customer interactive stores in China, as with this:

http://mashable.com/2015/01/24/hangzhou-west-lake-apple-store/

"We're investing like crazy in the market," Cook said, according to Reuters. "When I look at China, I see an enormous market where there are more people graduating into the middle class than any nation on Earth in history."
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It is clear to me why Xiaomi brought their exchange program into play.
 
Looney said:
Yes, it must be a Redmi

What a stupid name... Lol!

Sorry.

Nothing really special about this phone. The UI is a copy of ios.

I'll mess around with it when I have more time.
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It's Chinese....red has nationalist connotations... Hence the silly name.

Its a really good phone for the price they sell it at
 
Nerfherder said:
Aren't China our overlords already ?

Perhaps they will start selling them here before the West ?
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Very possible, Hugo Barra stated that by they will target emerging markets, they don't stick to distributors and have their own channels in place, perhaps we might see a Xiaomi online gateway pushing our supply locally in the next 1-2 years. Though they might initially target markets in the North like Nigeria, Egypt etc. Though we may expect the grey imports soon...
 
I think they are deliberately avoiding western markets to avoid legal issues with apple. As soon as they enter, there will be a flurry of lawsuits against them
 
imranpanji said:
I think they are deliberately avoiding western markets to avoid legal issues with apple. As soon as they enter, there will be a flurry of lawsuits against them
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Xiaomi is expanding so rapidly that it's only a matter of time before they're in the Western markets. They'll probably just run firmware closer to vanilla Android for the devices for those markets.

Hell, maybe Cyanogen will be ready with their Google-less future Cyanogenmod plans in time for such an expansion, and partner up with Xiaomi for devastating effect.
 
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