Xiaomi's Lei Jun to invest US$1bn in cloud computing market

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="photobox" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_divFirstImage" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Lei Jun speaks at the World Internet Conference in Zhejiang province, Nov. 19. (File photo/CNS)" class="photo" src="http://www.wantchinatimes.com/newsphoto/2014-12-07/450/CB19N0176H_2014%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87_N71_copy1.JPG" style="border-width: 0px; display: block;" title="Lei Jun speaks at the World Internet Conference in Zhejiang province, Nov. 19. (File photo/CNS)" /><div class="caption" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Lei Jun speaks at the World Internet Conference in Zhejiang province, Nov. 19. (File photo/CNS)</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">The first batch of the US$222 million investment in the 21Vianet Group, a leading carrier-neutral internet data center services provider in China, has signaled the intention of Lei Jun, founder and CEO of handset maker Xiaomi, to make major inroads into the cloud computing sector, according to the Beijing-based Caixin Online.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">On Dec. 1, 21Vianet announced an investment of US$296 million to buy 69.9 million Class A and 128.8 million Class B ordinary shares in Kingsoft Corporation, Xiaomi and Temasek, a Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Lei, who serves as chairperson of both Kingsoft and Xiaomi, has invested a total of US$222 million to obtain a 14% equity ownership in 21Vianet, which represents approximately 30% of the voting power.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Lei said that in the future, he will invest US$1 billion in the cloud market and gain a spot among the top five, or even the top three cloud market players, carving out a space for itself among Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Kingsoft CEO Zhang Hongjiang said the decision to enter the cloud market took only 19 hours.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">He said that during an August meeting to discuss the strategy for the next three years, "We decided that cloud computing is the strategy for future development in a meeting that began on 9am and lasted until 4am the next day."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Kingsoft is a new player in the field and its earlier cloud service had mainly targeted individuals, which is a market with a low threshold.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Lei said that in the future, his company will turn to business users and leave services for individual users to Xunlei, a digital content acceleration and online video services provider.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">He has formulated the "All in Yun (cloud)," strategy and vowed to invest US$1 billion in the market. In October, his plan was approved by Kingsoft's board of directors.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">"The US$1 billion can help Kingsoft earn admission to the cloud market. There are not many companies in China that can afford to invest US$1 billion," Lei said</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;">source:- <a href="http://wantchinatimes.com/">wantchinatimes.com</a></div></div>

Xiaomi's Lei Jun to invest US$1bn in cloud computing market

Lei Jun speaks at the World Internet Conference in Zhejiang province, Nov. 19. (File photo/CNS) The first batch of the US$222 million invest...

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Interview with Lei Jun : having more friends than enemy; Xiaomi will reach US eventually

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="402" id="aimg_l70G0" src="http://img6.cache.netease.com/tech/2014/12/1/2014120116025041279_550.png" style="word-wrap: break-word;" width="550" /></span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Below are some important points taken during the talk : </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span><br /><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="background-color: deepskyblue; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); color: #444444; empty-cells: show; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; table-layout: auto; width: 705px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi starting to go internationally and will reach United States eventually</span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : AlthoughXiaomi just founded for 4 and a half years, but one and a half year ago we already started focus our market internationally and currently our products are available in <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Indonesia.</span><span style="color: seagreen; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></span>We own the smartphone market in these countries and our goal is to<span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">become most popular smartphone brand in India and i have faith we will become India largest smartphone brand.</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host</span> : Wow, hopefully you guys will reach Silicon Valley soon !</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : As you all know, the smartphone market is very competitive, <span style="color: purple; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">i think we will begin our market in India, Indonesia, Russia and Brazil and all around the world and then only we will enter United State's market.</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host</span> : What is your opinion about acquiring some famous companies in the world to spread out the market globally ?</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : For Xiaomi we do need talented and skillful peole to help us in this aspect, that is why we hired Hugo which worked in google before. His experience will help us alot.</span></span></span><br /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img aid="227855" file="data/attachment/forum/201412/02/222427tkyigqzizydhjgfz.jpg.thumb.jpg" height="640" id="aimg_227855" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201412/02/222427tkyigqzizydhjgfz.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="word-wrap: break-word;" width="640" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201412/02/222427tkyigqzizydhjgfz.jpg" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span><br /><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="background-color: deepskyblue; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); color: #444444; empty-cells: show; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; table-layout: auto; width: 705px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun : My philosophy is make as much friends as you can and minimise your enemies</span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host : </span>Besides Xiaomi,  now Mr Lei Jun's you are having some share in famous chinese companies such as YY, Xunlei, Liebao, and Kingsoft so my question is, will it be your best weapon to knockout your enemies?</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : The first company that i joined was Kingsoft. Based on my 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, i have found out a special recipe that is <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: navy; word-wrap: break-word;">make as much friends as you can</span>.</span> I like to have many friends. Today i chatted with one friend, i told him what is Xiaomi's strategy in my point of view.<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: olive; word-wrap: break-word;"> Less eventually equal to more.</span></span> Why do i say so? If we can restrain our greedy and have an open mind, indirectly we will have more friends and the time we spend to argue with people will be lesser too. During this period, we invested on Baidu and today i announced that we invested on iqiyi (both are online streaming site in China). There are still some many online streaming site out there so should i acquire all of them in order to reduce my enemies? The answer is NO,  as long as what i needed can be used in our devices then that is enough. ( Example Baidu music that can be found in China ROM) </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span><br /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="383" id="aimg_aNU71" src="http://himg2.huanqiu.com/attachment2010/2014/1119/20141119085404392.jpg" style="word-wrap: break-word;" width="640" /></span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="background-color: deepskyblue; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); color: #444444; empty-cells: show; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; table-layout: auto; width: 705px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">The era of Mobile Internet has just begun</span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host</span> : I think you are very optimist in mobile internet and this is totally different from your friends. In past interview , Zhou said mobile internet is very risky as the bigger company will become stronger and</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">stronger</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"> and lastly own the market and those smaller ones will disqualifed by them. That is quite saddening. </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun </span>: Over the past few years are the years of the great development of the mobile Internet and now the development of the second phase has just begun . For example , just as what we did in cheetah mobile ( their famous app is cleanmaster) , <span style="color: blue; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">f</span><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">rom nothing to something</span></span> and in May we successfully listed in the US market.So I do believe that the mobile Internet business is just the beginning.</span></span></span><br /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img aid="227856" file="data/attachment/forum/201412/02/222446tfslkj8i3zl01avj.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_227856" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201412/02/222446tfslkj8i3zl01avj.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201412/02/222446tfslkj8i3zl01avj.png" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host</span> : So Mr Lei Jun,  do we still see any potential companies that run based on mobile internet this year?</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : Of course ! This year i see a very new concept platform that is called "Wei Dian" (we chat + taobao) . I think the sales can reach 300 millions.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host </span>: So can they challenge the larger platforms in the future?<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">For mobile providers this is a very new model and a new beginning</span></span>. If you want to join mobile internet this field, remember this few keywords : <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">concentrate, agreesive, fast and reputation</span>.</span>We have to make people understand about sense of participation. They will promote for us and then we can use this united strength to push our brand furher and further. I think this is the strength of Internet.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Host</span>: <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: purple; word-wrap: break-word;">So based on current devolpment will we beat Apple in one day?</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span> : <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: purple; word-wrap: break-word;">My heart do think so but this is not said by me</span></span>. </span></span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="106" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/comcom/18.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><img alt="" border="0" smilieid="106" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/comcom/18.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div>

Interview with Lei Jun : having more friends than enemy; Xiaomi will reach US eventually

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Lei Jun : The Chinese Steve Jobs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">The company </span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi</span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"> was founded</span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"> just four years ago in Beijing</span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"> and is already the</span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">third largest maker of smartphones in the world</span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">, thanks to the efforts of its founder, Lei Jun. But the success of the company, which is beginning to look toward Latin America, has not been without critics who accuse her of being just a "super cloner" products.</span></span></span></span></div></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" id="aimg_UPC9X" src="http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/07/xiaomi-mi-band-100360557-orig.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="720" /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">An enthusiastic tech entrepreneur <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt</span></span> sober walks on stage while presenting the new products of their successful company.</span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">The event is about to end and the executive smiles suddenly, as if suddenly remembering that you need to enter an ultimate </span></span><i style="word-wrap: break-word;">gadget</i><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"> to let your audience speechless.</span></span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">After a pause, he says he will reveal <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">"one more thing</span></span>". This last device surprise and Presenter clothing brand for years were almost recorded conferences performing the late Steve Jobs. <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">But the entrepreneur smiling walking on stage in Beijing this time is not the founder of Apple.</span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">The device is </span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">neither an iPhone nor an iPad but the <span style="word-wrap: break-word;">MiBand, "a sophisticated water-resistant wristband"</span></span></span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"> presented in July the booming Chinese company Xiaomi and serves multiple functions: monitor calories burned, recorded sleep stages and activates the functions of Smartphones p</span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">roduced by the company.</span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="405" id="aimg_ZnbfG" src="http://attach.bbs.miui.com/album/201407/22/164622e6d1av93zdw1c4yv.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="720" /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">All for a sum in China reached only $ 13, about 7,800 Chilean pesos</span></span> contrasting with the <span style="word-wrap: break-word;">56,000 it costs in Amazon a similar model of Nike or 207 thousand pesos will cost Apple iWatch to be launched in 2015</span> .</span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">One more: between cell which operates with My Band is the E4, a sophisticated computer with Android system presented in the same event in Beijing and whose most expensive version costs in China about 200 thousand dollars, a third of the price in that Country of iPhone 6 with similar characteristics.</span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">The <span style="word-wrap: break-word;">mastermind behind the attractive "combo" devices high performance and low cost is <span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Lei Jun</span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">, a businessman of 43 years who dresses and speaks as the founder of Apple and is now known as the "Steve Jobs Chinese".</span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">As his model, Lei Jun has turned his company into a technology Xiaomi empire.<span style="word-wrap: break-word;">According to a report released in October by IDC, in the third quarter of 2014 the company shipped 17.3 million </span><i style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">smartphones,</span></i><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"> which put him in <span style="word-wrap: break-word;">third place of the largest manufacturers in the world of such devices, displacing giant as Lenovo and LG.</span></span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="360" id="aimg_acWf0" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03090/Xiaomi_1_3090142k.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="640" /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">Now only surpassed by Apple (39.3 million) and Samsung (78.1 million). Quite an achievement considering that the company was founded just four years ago in Beijing and launched its first mobile Mi1 only in 2011.</span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi means "<span style="word-wrap: break-word;">little rice</span>"</span>, but the company is anything but humble, and <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">runs 2,400 employees</span></span>, <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">annual revenue in excess of two billion dollars and hordes of loyal customers</span></span> that focus on markets such as China and Taiwan, although already begun to look at other areas such as Latin America.</span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="quote" style="background: url(http://en.miui.com/static/image/miui/base/icon_quote_s.gif) 20px 6px no-repeat rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 10px 5px 65px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><blockquote style="background: url(http://en.miui.com/static/image/miui/base/icon_quote_e.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 65px 5px 0px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Analysts agree that the key to this rapid expansion is Lei Jun and its business strategy based on selling cell phones and high-end devices almost at cost.</span></span></span></blockquote></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">Today, the entrepreneur has a fortune of 3.9 billion dollars and a cut similar to that used acolytes Jobs. For example, <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">his followers on Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, over four million.</span></span> According to the magazine <i style="word-wrap: break-word;">Forbes</i> his fans are mainly young men addicted to<i style="word-wrap: break-word;">gadgets</i> , for whom Xiaomi organizes annual conferences where a similar fervor that Apple generates live. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">Those consumers were seduced from the start by combining high performance & low price Xiaomi: <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">to launch the Mi1 the company received 300,000 orders in the first 34 hours</span></span>. In China the equipment cost less than half the iPhone 4S and in less than a year had sold over three million units.</span></span></span><br /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="531" id="aimg_EgrgG" src="http://xiacom.ru/uploads/posts/2013-12/1386069702_xiomi-mi-one-mi-two.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="687" /></span></div></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div class="quote" style="background: url(http://en.miui.com/static/image/miui/base/icon_quote_s.gif) 20px 6px no-repeat rgb(249, 249, 249); font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 10px 5px 65px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><blockquote style="background: url(http://en.miui.com/static/image/miui/base/icon_quote_e.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 65px 5px 0px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">He is an incredible self-promoter and a supreme expert in</span><i style="word-wrap: break-word;">marketing</i><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"> , which explains why he and his company received more attention than other presidents of companies that make similar equipment @ South China Morning Post.</span></span></span></span></blockquote></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">Little is known about the personal life of Lei Jun, but<span style="word-wrap: break-word;"> it grew near <span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Wuhan, a gray industrial city in central China</span>, and studied computer. At that time he read a book about Steve Jobs and decided to emulate.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="quote" style="background: url(http://en.miui.com/static/image/miui/base/icon_quote_s.gif) 20px 6px no-repeat rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 10px 5px 65px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><blockquote style="background: url(http://en.miui.com/static/image/miui/base/icon_quote_e.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 65px 5px 0px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">"I was very influenced and wanted to establish a company that was first class. So I created a plan to finish college quickly, "said Lei Jun at <i style="word-wrap: break-word;">The New York Times.</i></span></span></span></blockquote></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">After the race, he worked at several companies where their talents in engineering and<i style="word-wrap: break-word;">marketing</i> allowed him to move quickly and collect as much money as the team of five engineers to found Xiaomi. </span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">"<span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">He has a vision. Go trends before others and is always ready to adapt</span></span>, "said Liu Ren director of an investment fund to <i style="word-wrap: break-word;">The New York Times</i> . </span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">One tactic is to hire the same suppliers of other giants to ensure quality, in addition to selling through internet only to eliminate middlemen and thus lower costs. In addition,<span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi modified their designs and functions from </span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><i style="word-wrap: break-word;">feedback</i> received online from "My Fans" and every Friday upgrade the operating system of your equipment to keep captives.</span></span></span></span><br /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="255" id="aimg_d0wDP" src="http://miuiandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/support-ma.png" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="622" /></span></div></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">While the <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">company achieved the milestone of one billion dollars in profits faster than any other company in China -Amazon took five years, progress has not been without criticism</span></span>, which in recent times have worsened. </span></span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">The main thing is that phones, tablets and other devices have Xiaomi hardware designs and software suspiciously similar to those of the competition.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="386" id="aimg_vpEt9" src="http://images.chinatopix.com/data/images/full/2018/hugo-barra-right.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="580" /></span></span></div></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">Hugo Barra, former vice president of Google Xiaomi hired to oversee its global operations. At a conference in California, Hugo said <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi was "inspired" by the best designers in the world, including Apple, but not copied ideas.</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">"<span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Show me a new product that has a completely unique design language. </span></span></span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">They will not find any. </span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">People who see a photo on a website and were accused of theft should look more closely; </span></span></span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">I invite you to experience our products first hand</span></span>, "said the Brazilian executive.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">"I do not see it as a compliment. </span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">When you do something for the first time do not know if it will work, you spend seven years working on something and then someone copies. </span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">It is very clear. </span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;">Is theft, "said another panel when asked by Xiaomi.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">What about the myth that "everything Chinese is bad"?</span></span> According Metivier that has changed: "The same happened with Korean products 10 years ago. Today all the leading technology brands, whatever their country of origin, manufacture their products in China and in the same productive than Xiaomi platforms. <span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">All components of the Xiaomi phone are of the best international brands. </span></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">Quality control is extremely rigorous and failure rates of products are among the lowest in the market</span></span>.</span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="374" id="aimg_nsABs" src="http://files.idg.co.kr/itworld/xiaomi_execs_500.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="600" /></span></div></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://diario.latercera.com/2014/11/29/01/contenido/tendencias/26-178504-9-el-steve-jobs-chino.shtml" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: tendencias (chinese translated)</span></a></div><div><br /></div></div>

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