This is a false figure. I have never seen expensive Chinese phone in anyone's hand. People who are looking to flaunt their lifestyle will choose between Samsung/Apple or recently Nothing Phone. No 4th option. OnePlus got some premium features in the middle, but it's gone now, they failed to keep brand value.
Shift it then.
Look, Xiaomi has a good thing going on India. They tried to play smart and ended up getting flagged. If they leave, i really doubt there would be any visible impact on the smartphone market in India except lack of options. But that gap usually gets filled very fast. Where there’s a market, there’s always going to be someone ready to make a play.
That's because Indians are cheap and you don't buy expensive mobile phones. For example, in 2021, only 5.4 million mobile phones with a price of more than 500 dollars have sold in India. In 2021, 109.56 million mobile phones with a price of more than 500 dollars have sold in China.
My first smart phone was Xiomi. Great product
and it was sold out in hours when it was launched. If they could follow rules and pay taxes, they will have great future. They have potential to become next samsung.hindu bhangiee
I remind you. The main high-end mobile phone brand in China is Huawei. Huawei's high-end mobile phones usually sell for 5000CNY to 10000CNY ($700 to $1400). Oneplus is not a high-end mobile phone.
Huawei is banned worldwide, so can't say about that. But even for Chinese people, those looking for 1k bucks mobile phones would look for iPhones.
There is a purchasing power parity for low income countries. But even in America, Chinese brands are sold because they are cheap otherwise it's Apple or Samsung, now don't call the Americans cheap because they buy a few hundred of Chinese phones for being cheap.
Hasn’t US almost destroyed it’s appeal outside China? Any chance of it regaining its markets outside China?
US won't tolerate a brand which wants to create it's own eco-system and monopoly. Chinese mobiles are good as long as they are using Android.
Hasn’t US almost destroyed it’s appeal outside China? Any chance of it regaining its market outside China?
Xiaomi doesn’t sell in China? Corollary- Chinese people don’t buy Xiaomi because they are not cheap people?
Huawei has a better price performance ratio among mobile phones above 700 dollars. In particular, the 5G performance and camera function are excellent. Apple has an advantage in mobile phones above 1000 dollars. But the real top business mobile phones (more than 20k CNY&3k dollars) are almost Huawei.
I have nothing against Huawei or Xiaomi. In fact I have bought both of them at some point. And might again. Xiaomi gives tremendous value proposition hence its success in many markets.
Xiaomi has performed well in China's low-end mobile phone market. Chinese people also like millet. Huawei just drove Samsung out of the Chinese market.
