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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