Xiaomi is a vertical company. They're not trying to create services that go everywhere, uh, and make money that way. And Xiaomi is saying we can build a new kind of, of home company that is enabled and tied together by, by the smartphone. That's the way to think about products going forward. You presuppose the presence of a smartphone, this device that is connected and go anywhere and touch anything. It's like Samsung has never kind of put the pieces together.
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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