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Rising Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi, has made great strides in the last few years. The brand has risen to become the largest mobile brand in China and one of the largest in the world. But Xiaomi says that counterfeits of its products is their biggest headache now. Xiaomis CEO, Lei Jun, has been reported as saying, “If there were no counterfeits, our sales would be double or triple.”
Like Patrick Moorhead said, that sounds just ironic:
Does anyone else see the irony in this? / Xiaomi Confronts Counterfeits as Fake Products Eat Into Sales http://t.co/kTD97iWPFp
— Patrick Moorhead (@PatrickMoorhead) April 14, 2015
Consider that Xiaomi itself started out basically copying others and you get the point….
At any rate, all successful products have to face the problem of counterfeits.
Founder of MobilityArena. Yomi’s journey in mobile started in 2001. Besides obsessing over mobile phones, he also started creating WAP sites (early mobile-friendly websites created with WML). He began writing about phones in 2004 and has been at it since then. He has owned over 200 devices, from Symbian, Palm, PocketPC/Windows Mobile, BlackBerry/BB10, webOS, Windows Phone, Firefox, Ubuntu Touch, to Android, iOS, and KaiOS operating systems.
hehehehe
Lol.
Price one has to pay for success….
What goes around, comes around…
Xiaomi. In China. Copying what others did. In a country renowned for copying when it comes to phones. Didn’t think that, somehow, by copying, someone along the way wouldn’t take a leaf from their book and copy them?
Wonder if anyone pointed this out to their CEO?
Hmmnnn……Complaining is evil because it is Chinese trademark.
seriously Xiaomi, what happened to originality. try harder next time