Why do some of China’s biggest tech companies engage in the sincerest form of flattery? This week Lei Jun, the chief executive of Xiaomi—recently rebranded internationally as Mi—stood on stage in a black T-shirt and jeans and announced a new smartphone with a notable resemblance to the iPhone in front of a slide that said “one more thing…”
Yes, the same “one more thing…” slide that Steve Jobs made famous…Mi thinks “sweeping sensationalist statements” of it copying Apple are off the mark. “We are not the only ones who have adopted the Steve Jobs presentation style,” Mi international vice-president Hugo Barra said. “The whole world has done that.”
But Mi isn’t the only Chinese company to be imitating its Western peers. Lenovo has just unveiled a prototype of a rival to Google Glass, in which the chief innovation appears to be an ungainly-looking neck-mounted battery pack. And Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, is working on a driverless car—though it’s too early to tell how closely its designs match those of Google, which has been developing one for years.
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Kabir Chibber, Quartz via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1pmFNAJ
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