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Andreessen: Xiaomi's electric car offers Porsche Cayenne quality for $20,000
“Xiaomi is one of the big Chinese makers of smartphones. They now have a car. And it's like sort of the equivalent of a Porsche Cayenne SUV. But it's like 20,000 dollars, and it's really good.”
Ismail: Smartphone maker Xiaomi incurs zero marketing or promotional costs
“Then you have Xiaomi in China, the second biggest phone company, and they're successful because they have a thousand super users that vote on what features should go into the new phone, and they get the phone early and can boast to people, look, I voted, and a…”
Sinofsky: Android OEMs will launch dozens of VR headsets by 2017
“Fast forward this, 1218 months, and you could see the reviews and the columns, and it's going to be the Samsung VR kit, the Xiaomi VR kit, and just like 12 different ones that are like the same but different, and people are going to evaluate those, and then th…”
Evans: Emerging Chinese smartphone makers are hurting Samsung, not Apple
“In precisely the period that you have half a dozen Chinese manufacturers coming into market with really good design and strong brand, which show me is only the most obvious, and what's happening is those guys are killing Samsung, they're not touching Apple at …”
Evans: Xiaomi Is Expanding to Middle-Income Markets, Not Developed Nations
“Xiaomi is starting to think, but it's starting to go international, but only to middle income markets, only to India and Brazil and places like that, not to develop markets. Much harder for them to come to the USA.”
Evans: Chinese teenagers prefer iPhones and Xiaomi over Samsung
“Indeed, if you then ask Chinese teenagers what brand they want, first they say they want an iPhone, then they say they want a phone from interesting new brands like Xiaomi or Meizu and Samsung is a hand-me-down phone they get from their grandmother. They all h…”
Shirky: One-third of Xiaomi MIUI features originate from user suggestions
“Blaise Jones has said that a third of the features in, in me UI have come from suggestions from users.”
Shirky: Xiaomi Releases Weekly OS Updates and Polls Users
“Every time they ship a new version of the operating system, which is every Friday, they do it every week, and they've done it every week for years. They go out with a set of exactly the same four questions they ask the user. What was your favorite feature? Wha…”