Xiaomi It is currently one of the most popular and recognized manufacturers of mobile devices and many other products, since we must not forget that the Chinese manufacturer has among its catalog, a couple of laptops, tablets, a dehumidifier and even a light bulb intelligent. Of course, its history is not too long and is that it was created in 2010, taking only a few months to become known internationally.
This little time has been more than enough to generate multi-million dollar sales, surprising a huge number of users with their devices. It has also even given so that today we publish this article in which we are going to show you 5 curiosities about Xiaomi that surely you did not know until this moment.
Before launching into discovering curiosities about the Chinese manufacturer, we are only going to ask you one thing and that is that you tell your friends or family some of the anecdotes about Xiaomi, tell them that you read them in Actualidad Gadget.
His name, an enigma
The name of Xiaomi is one of the curiosities that I like to explain the most every time I talk about this popular manufacturer, and that I think I have already explained several times on this blog and a few more to several friends. Xiaomi is the transposition of Chinese characters to the western alphabet, although it usually gives a lot of room for interpretations, especially if you ask someone who is Chinese or who knows how to speak and write Chinese.
?? (Xiao and Mi) are the two Chinese characters that give rise to Xiaomi that mean little millet, millet being a cereal. We have seen the second term as the manufacturer's logo or icon and it is also present in the name of their devices.
Xiaomi's activities are the most varied
Until recently, it was very normal for a company in the world of technology to focus on the launch and commercialization of a single device or a couple of them. However, with the passage of time, a large number of companies such as Sony or Huawei have decided to expand their business more and more and offer their devices for different markets of the most varied.
Sony, for example, sells mobile devices, tablets, game consoles or televisions in almost any corner of the world, some with greater or lesser success but showing itself as a very solid manufacturer in almost all of those markets.
However Xiaomi's activities are very varied, leaving almost any pattern for a company so young and with so little history behind it.. If we were to list all the devices and products that the Chinese manufacturer currently sells on the market, we would surely need a few hours.
We have all surely seen and touched a Xiaomi smartphone or tablet on occasion, we may even have been able to try one of its smart bulbs, but it also has successfully commercialized its smart bracelets, televisions, laptops, shoes, and even a mask to avoid breathing gases that are harmful to our lungs.
Xiaomi's tentacles are practically infinite and at the moment it is difficult to find a device that has not been successful, since its quality and especially its price are more than interesting in both cases.
Its value continues to grow at full speed
Despite the fact that Xiaomi was created in 2010, it was not until 2015 when it achieved its consecration, becoming known in a huge number of countries outside of China. Actually the value of the Chinese manufacturer is 46.000 million dollars or what is the same, a real outrage for a company created only a few years ago.
In addition, it already has directly hired more than 8.000 employees, although in this aspect it is tremendously far from some of its competitors such as Huawei where more than 170.000 people currently work and around the world.
Xiaomi continues to grow at full speed and surely in a few years its market value will have doubled or tripled, and its workforce multiplied by some very high number.
He has managed to seduce even Hugo Barra himself
Hugo Barra He is one of the most important and well-known people in the world of technology and it is that much of his prestige was built as a Google product manager and as head of Android development. His comfortable position within the search giant, where he was called in the future to be one of the strong men, if not already, was not enough to not let himself be seduced by Xiaomi.
Within the Chinese manufacturer he is the most visible and recognized head, doing the functions of vice president, although almost everyone agrees that it is more than what his positions say.
In addition to Barra, many other personalities have also been seduced by the Chinese manufacturer, among which stands out Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, who paid a visit to the facilities of the Chinese manufacturer and of which he went on to say that he has "excellent products that are good enough to penetrate the American market."
Xiaomi is accused of espionage
For some time now, many manufacturers of mobile devices have been under suspicion for spying on users through them. Xiaomi is one of them and it is that eIn 2014, spying software was detected in some company terminals such as the Xiaomi RedMi Note and the Xiaomi RedMi 1S.
After a long investigation on Xiaomi and many other manufacturers, they all came out innocent of the espionage accusations, although since then they have always been pointed out, without also being able to get rid of this bad publicity.
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