Xiaomi can get away with a more flawed product than Apple because they're only charging $300 for it or less. Xiaomi is making a different sort of compromise. The whole Internet of Things, it's a new market and what wins in new markets. And I mean, this is the direction that both Google and Apple are going,. Like Google with Nest and Apple with HomeKit.
Ben and James discuss Xiaomi’s ambition to own the home, why we’re frustrated with patents, why the West is unfair to the developing world, and what makes China unique.
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- Jordan Lewis: Exponent Bingo – Twitter
- Ben Thompson: Xiaomi’s Ambition – Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Handicapping the Internet of Things – Stratechery
- When Charles Dickens fell out with America – BBC
- To Live (The film about the Cultural Revolution) – Wikipedia
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