Recently, Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, was caught up in a controversial situation after it was found by users that the company’s smartphones were not displaying weather for Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Chinese brand has since called this issue a “technical error” and that it has been fixed.
For those unaware, the tensions between India and China have been rising, with recent military clashes on the Indo-Chinese borders also raising friction between both governments while cultivating anti Chinese sentiments in India. This issue becomes even further supplemented by the fact that there is a border dispute regarding Arunachal on the map, which has made it a contentious matter
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Thus, when users started sharing the news of Xiaomi smartphones not showing Arunachal Pradesh’s weather details, the company faced immense criticism online. In other words, Xiaomi was caught in the crossfire, although it has fixed the issue since it was first discovered, according to the Times of India report.
Xiaomi’s official spokesperson has clarified that it was indeed a glitch. “There was a technical issue in our weather app that we had identified. The same has been fixed.”
As per an official statement from the company, “At Mi India, we take great pride in the love and trust that our fans and consumers across the country have bestowed on us. We would like to clarify that the weather app on our devices uses data from multiple third-party data sources and we understand that for many locations, the weather-related data is not available on the current app. This is a technical error on our application.”
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