Comments on: Xiaomi – Broken engagement.

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 31 May 2016 09:46:20 +0000

Lets see when the Q2 16A figures come in. Q1 was a disaster. A one month wonder will not rescue the company…. I am open to changing my view a little should the MI5 do as well as you indicate.

By: flavio martins

flavio martins — Tue, 31 May 2016 09:21:35 +0000

Well, looks like their strategy has began to work:
Mi 5 is a success.

http://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-tops-chinese-smartphone-market-695685/

By: windsorr

windsorr — Thu, 26 May 2016 13:30:06 +0000

because increasingly they need to control the experience to encourage users to spend time with them where previously users have spent time with their compettors. This is why they ALL except Baidu have an Android fork of their own. Baidu and Xiaomi is the one alliance that could work.

By: Jarno P

Jarno P — Wed, 25 May 2016 08:19:28 +0000

“I think that an alliance with one of the big three ecosystems is the best outcome for Xiaomi.”

I find it hard to see to logic why any of the three big Chinese service players would give preferential treatment on Xiaomi. Sure there are fragments inside the companies that would like to partner with Xiaomi, but it does not make much sense. They are pure service players and since Xiaomi doesn’t have dominant market share In China or anywhere, they would lose more than win here unless deep device integration would enable some extraordinary value/experience. That has been a Holy-Grail-to-be-found in device business and it has never realized since horizontal service players can provide good enough experience to a far larger audience. All the HW/device related deep-service-integration cases have horrible economics due the fact that the device dependency will mean slow and limited market penetration.

Only Apple has managed to do this to some extent, but they have a dominant market share among people who have lot of money to spend. And even Apple’s own services have limited take-off outside App Store & iTunes and device-related stuff like iCould backup etc. Apple Music might be the first exception to the “rule”.