Xiaomi's website overloaded by Brazilian buyers on first day of launch

[TaiShang]

Excellent! China brands practically dominate the market. Xiaomi will grow big as it places itself as a smart-electronics company. As you say, Xiaomi is currently busy building up a life-style around its products.

Keep in mind that the company was only founded in mid-2010.

The current trend is primarily moving to interior of China and ASEAN, where productivity per capita is high, workers have good work ethics and infra is good. More and more Chinese companies will open their factories in Southwest Asia to lower the cost and then ship the products to China and across the world.

The next big destinations for global investment are ASEAN and interior China. India might receive a little bit but it will likely have to share the larger portion with SEA -- especially with China's integration projects. China is struggling to keep the investment heavily concentrated nearby, if not in China's interior territories.

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CEO Lei Jun said on Thursday that people think Xiaomi does not respect technological innovation and has no patents. He added, "I think everyone misunderstands," reported PC World. While revealing the new Mi Note, Jun said that the company had applied for 2,318 patents last year, out of which 665 were outside of China. However, Xiaomi's patent portfolio is comparitively weak as it was founded only in 2010. Jun said that, on a hopeful note, the company will have tens of thousands of patents in the coming years.

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Please note: As of 2013.

 

[cirr]

Factory already under construction?
Foxconn has just opened an industrial park in one of the poorest province in China, Guizhou Province.
One part of the great project of cloud computing park
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The current trend is primarily moving to interior of China and ASEAN, where productivity per capita is high, workers have good work ethics and infra is good. More and more Chinese companies will open their factories in Southwest Asia to lower the cost and then ship the products to China and across the world.

I guess the Foxconn factory in India（if and when it is completed）will use cheap labour while the giant factories in China will start replacing humans with robots for efficiency、low-cost and high quality，leading Foxconn to make in China things other than cheap electronic gadgets。I hear that the company is very much interested in making electric BEVs and PHEVs for the rapidly growing Chinese new-energy vehicles market。

 

[Beast]

Exactly If labor was the only factor India would have become a Manufacturing powerhouse long ago

No ,Somalia will take that spot but nobody will invest in Somalia

 

[cirr]

Xiaomi is not just about smart phone in China.
Xiaomi is more software-oriented, not hardware. What Xiaomi wants to create is a pattern of Xiaomi way of life. In China it also sells TV, air purifier, bedside lamp, sphygmomanometer, etc.
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55 inches 4k TV, 4999yuan
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Smart beside lamp, 249yuan
all different colours
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1Tb router, 699yuan
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Smart socket, 79yuan
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smart camera
129yuan normal version
149yuan infrared night vision
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sphygmomanometer, 199yuan
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16 million pixels sport camera
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Xiaomi‘s next gadget for the big boys could be an electric car。It has applied for and been granted over a dozen auto patents and has a stake，albeit indirectly，in a BEV company recently set-up by a few internet big shrimps。We are likely to see the 1st product of NEXTEV in 2016 that is promised to better Tesla in 0-100km acceleration。

 

[Aepsilons]

Xiaomi‘s next gadget for the big boys could be an electric car。It has applied for and been granted over a dozen auto patents and has a stake，albeit indirectly，in a BEV company recently set-up by a few internet big shrimps。We are likely to see the 1st product of NEXTEV next year that is promised to better Tesla in 0-100km acceleration。

Better than Tesla?

 

[cirr]

Better than Tesla?

The company says so。

The 1st product，due sometime in 2016，will be a super super 1360hp sports car。Faster in acceleration but cheaper in cost than Tesla。

It will definitely be more connected and smarter than the current Tesla models。

 

[cirr]

Dr. Martin Leach，president of NEXTEV，former global CEO of Maserati：

 

[Jlaw]

The company says so。

The 1st product，due sometime in 2016，will be a super super sports car。Faster in acceleration but cheaper in cost than Tesla。

It will definitely be more connected and smarter than the current Tesla models。

I cannot wait for this. When the product come out I like to see it compare side by side with Tesla.

 

[qwerrty]

i think xiaomi currently is building reputation, ecosystem and collecting customers for their future products that will make them real money like how alibaba started 12 years ago..

 

[cirr]

I cannot wait for this. When the product come out I like to see it compare side by side with Tesla.

Neither can I。 NEXTEV will start with a super sports car and move onto other models later。

 

[AndrewJin]

Neither can I。 NEXTEV will start with a super sports car and move onto other models later。

It looks cool.
Cheaper than Telsa?
Telsa fails in China.

 

[Jlaw]

It looks cool.
Cheaper than Telsa?
Telsa fails in China.

Tesla is too expensive for something that has a range of 150 km. Most people will not make it to work and back home in big cities across Canada.

 

[rott]

one plus team was from OPPO/BBK. OPPO has very good products but it's too expensive.
BTW xiaomi TV and pad sell very well in China

Lol I saw a comment by one Indian guy and he goes on to say, "one plus is probably not a chinese start up company, it's a US company." I was like, wtf where do people get these ridiculous information.
Yes, I agree with you. It's a branch out company from OPPO. Not sure if OPPO still have stakes in them.
The thing is OPPO needs better pricing strategy. One plus got it right.

Will happen in Europe too! Can't wait to buy one of their phones. Especially if it's better priced than the iPhone. Come on Xiaomi!

Priced better than an iPhone? IPhone stands no where in pricing when it goes head to head with Xiaomi.

I am using a MI3. It's been almost a year now and no major fault at all with the phone. Just a few bugs with the MIUI. That isn't enough to deter one from buying an incredible value for money phone.
You could close your eyes and pick one up. I play wot blitz on this phone and performs flawlessly. Cheers!

 

[hans]

Xiaomi is famous for its MIUI OS interface.
Huawei is famous for its hardware like CPU and other design features.
One plus is a good phone, but not so famous.

Its a good phone been using it for 3 months now ,before I was cautious of buying becuz it was a Chinese brand but then I thought what the hell & bought it anyway needless to say I don't regret my decision

TSMC and MTK are also China company.
Root in Taiwan province of China but major market and facility in mainland China.
China is also working in the upstream like CPU chips, display screen and so on..
But you are right. China currently is on the middle of the supply chain..

This definition of made is very imprecise, and in today's terms inaccurate.

Yes, Indian vendors are at the bottom end of the value heirarchy, for they started by selling rebranded Chinese smart phones, but over time some of the prominent ones have gained enough experience and scale to design their own phones. Some are even assembling the phones here, and the talk to localize manufacturing growing. So on the whole Smartphone manufacturing is a big supply chain.

It starts with upstream, higher valued suppliers, like Sony, Sharp, Samsung, who are known to make best Display screens and Image sensors, to Foundry services, like Samsung, Intel, and TSMC, to fabless chip designers, like Hisilicon, Qualcomm, MediaTek.

China is somewhere in the middle of the supply chain. It can design phones, make a lot of components as well, has some exceptional fabless firms like Hi Silicon, but lags in high end foundry services, display panels, sensors, and the like.

India has huge population.
Even small percentage of people become middle class, the purchase power will be great.
also some cost sensitive industry is moving out of China,
If India can catch up this chance, India can get more job opportunity

No he is trying to integrate into the global supply China, which is moving towards South East Asia, and South Asia.
Already, Foxconn has plans to invest upto about 10 billion dollars creating smartphone manufacturing hubs in India. Assembling in China is no longer feasible economically, and hence we can start from there.

We have so many awesome phones in China because of fierce competition between OEMs
if there is so many copyright issue like in EU and US, the newcomers may hardly survive and there is few competition
so sometimes for the consumers, the copyright may not be a good news

Will happen in Europe too! Can't wait to buy one of their phones. Especially if it's better priced than the iPhone. Come on Xiaomi!

 

[TaiShang]

India has huge population.
Even small percentage of people become middle class, the purchase power will be great.
also some cost sensitive industry is moving out of China,
If India can catch up this chance, India can get more job opportunity

Looks like ASEAN is going to pick up most of the manufacturing that leaves China. India has to be really attractive in something outside cheap labor.