Xiaomi is the first Chinese company that's managed to build a cool consumer brand. For years, everyone with Dismissed China was like, oh, yeah, you know what, they're able to copy. But here's the first instance of them developing within the country. This brand at least to within Chinese consumers is really considered very cool.
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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