After operating under Xiaomi for years, Redmi is now an Independent brand, and Lu Weibing is appointed as the General Manager of the company. Since then he’s quite active on Weibo, teasing new products and even answering users’ queries. In a similar conversation, Lu Weibing replied thoughtfully to a question about Xiaomi’s closest rival? The difficulties encountered by Xiaomi in competing with the Huawei?
Lu Weibing admitted that Xiaomi is popularly known for its price/performance ratio. Besides marketing, equal importance should be given to R&D and promotion of the product in the right direction. He said Huawei’s enriched 32 years of history is making the journey difficult for 9-year-old Xiaomi. Though, Xiaomi is deliberately working, improving and learning from Huawei.
Xiaomi’s General manager believes that Xiaomi needs Huawei as much as the world needs it. Every company serves different users based on its values and products. Despite the diversification across the globe, companies should work to benefit end users.
Overall, it is impossible for a company like Xiaomi to fulfil every users’ needs. Due to limited resources and availability, as of now, Xiaomi is aiming to facilitate a limited set of users. The company aims to diversify its product portfolio by learning from Huawei in the coming times.
Huawei shipped more than 59 million smartphones in the Q1 2019, and Xiaomi also advanced in comparison with Q4 2018. However, in the number of sales, Xiaomi lags way behind the Huawei.
Moreover, Redmi is expected to launch the cheapest Snapdragon 855 powered device – Redmi SD855. It is expected to feature high-end specification including 6GB RAM, triple camera module and Android 9.0 Pie on board.
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