According to Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi India’s Vice President, India needs to be more competitive with other manufacturing hubs. Historically, China has been the leader in terms of manufacturing and assembly based sectors; this holds true especially for smartphones. However, in recent times, countries like Vietnam and India have been seeing increasing growth in the same area.

Now, the Vice President and Managing Director of Xiaomi India, has stated that India has to take initiatives to be more viable over its other alternatives like Vietnam and China. In an interview, the senior executive stated that the company has requested the Indian Government to make India a “more export-friendly destination.” India’s growth also directly impacts the company which is the leading smartphone brand in the country; that is also the second-largest smartphone market in the world.

He also mentioned a few of the moves the Government can take to favor such an initiative like duty drawback refund for the merchant exporter. Furthermore, Xiaomi is also expected to “invest in laboratories which allow for global standard testing, since BIS is not a globally accepted standard,” according to Manu.

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India has great untapped potential in its emergence as a manufacturing hub and Xiaomi will largely benefit from this. The Chinese tech giant has seven smartphone manufacturing plants in India in collaboration with the Taiwanese company, Foxconn and Singapore-based technological manufacturers, Flex.

Ease in export policies is great for Xiaomi as the company is looking to start a small export pilot to Bangladesh and Nepal for smartphones from India. The company is currently operating at 100 percent capacity with up to three smartphones being made every second which helps the company meet the increasing demand.

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According to foreign website, Forbes, the Xiaomi smartphone manufacturer is ready to sell, and Apple would be interested in the acquisition of Xiaomi manufacturer.

The news is still a rumor and it’s seems that’s not true. But in the global economy, almost every company can become a takeover target or acquirer, but the premise is to be able to produce a synergistic effect, and the timing and the price is right.

Xiaomi is part of the “corporate sector” in China, the mobile phone operators from the United States, where opponents have learned a lot.

Xiaomi draws on the experience of Google and Apple. From Google, where Xiaomi adopted the open operating system platform, in order to win the favor of consumers. And from Apple, Xiaomi learned brand. In addition, Xiaomi also learned to rely on innovation rather than simply imitate competitive way.

From Google and Apple, where the lessons of experience have helped Xiaomi greater brand in the Chinese market to challenge Apple in this market, the price of Xiaomi has obvious advantages.

The following is Apple’s acquisition of Xiaomi is wise for two reasons. First, through the acquisition of Xiaomi, Apple will be able to eliminate the world’s largest, fastest-growing Chinese market, its strong competitors, but also enable it to market in China doubled overnight, Flurry published in accordance with the company’s mobile business analysis Data show that Xiaomi smartphone market in China accounted for 5% of the share. Moreover, Apple has a larger market share, it will help the company to respond effectively to market leader Samsung competing companies. Second, with the developed markets of the smart phone market is approaching maturity, Apple have also a growing concern. If the acquisition of Xiaomi, in the case of non-destructive brand image, Apple will be able to enter China’s rural and low-cost smartphone market in Southeast Asia.

Realistically speaking, this strategic move is impossible. Traditionally, Apple has been relying on acquisitions rather than organic growth strategy to develop. In addition, receiving a Chinese company is also a tricky business, which involves a lot of legal issues. In addition, there are some other factors that will lead to foreign takeovers of Chinese enterprises is difficult to deal.

Simply put, the synergy between Apple and Xiaomi may exist, and given Apple’s strong capital, the transaction price should not be a problem, but the timing may be premature.

Although not dare bet on such a deal, but if Apple reached with a low-cost smartphone manufacturers sometime in the future so that a deal is not surprising, because the “smart phone battle” in the “bottom of the pyramid “- low per capita income of many consumers transfer.

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