Xiaomi reportedly wants to buy GoPro
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Xiaomi phones are selling more than Apple and LG in Spain!
Is the Firefly cheaper than the Yi Action cameras? Yi is also owned by xiaomi.
They also have the Mija line. Anyway, I would say that brand and, even more importantly, patents are the two key reasons why they would do it.
or maybe make GoPro (Xiaomi) phones so it would be easier for Xiaomi to sell in the US?
Would help in brand recognition when expanding to the US
Their IP and tech possibly. GoPro’s algo and firmware is potentially still better than Xiaomi’s alternatives in this sector. Maybe they can use this on their phones since its the software where Xiaomi camera’s drop the ball.
Talk about ironic.
But why when they have their own line of GoPro cameras in “Yi”?
Not manufacturing (xiaomi can manufacture a lot more than GoPro) but patents. GoPro actually has quite a lot of patents (almost 10 million patents if I’m not wrong) and if Xiaomi wants to do a serious push in the west with action cams, those patents might come in handy.
Bilingual world and signs bro: English and Chinese.
But China will lead the race.
They’re manufacturered by foxconn afaik, so taiwan/china.
I dunno, i would assume it would generally be easier to start from scratch, and just scalp the employees you want from other companies.
I’d partner with huawei tbh
Then why is Apple the most valuable company?
It made more sense to buy pebble tbh…
I disagree to a certain point. Chinese syllables and characters are so different to English that it is basically quite impossible to adopt English.
I mean there are some words which sound a bit English (幽默 ＝ youmo = humor or 逻辑 = luoji = logic), but in the end the difference is too big between the languages that English could really be adopted into Chinese syllables.
So either it will be some like “我今天出去了party” (again, I think quite unlikely), or it won’t happen.
Currently when I see conversations between westerners and Chinese, there is some “English integration” like 3Q (三Q = san Q = thank you), but this leads more to confusion on the western side than anything.
I don’t really see any integration happening based on the limited syllables they have.
>Chinese, culturally, will never, ever change.
That’s pretty naive of you to say. They have already changed deeply a couple times as a society, especially when you look in the big cities like Shenzen.
Going from the old celestial empire to the Mao’s communist regime (and all the various changes in between) and then now from the more USSR-like communism to a more capitalistic dictatorship under Xi Jinping. Those are profound changes that shaped the culture of today’s China (an example would be religion in China, and how under the CPC the population became pretty much completely irreligious)
Can’t we just use pidgin english
In Israel they jumped almost 10% in sales within a year and now they are 3rd place behind apple. Damn, i see way more xiaomi devices than iphones
maybe by buying go-pro they accquire some factories/employees/logistics and stuff in USA? just a thought
Well, 200 to 25 is really big drop, I don’t think so. Even Runcam or Foxeer aren’t than cheap.
> The smart ones will learn to speak Mandarin and/or Cantonese to stay competitive in the new world.
It’s more likely the other way around, meaning Chinese will start adopting English, as it is the de facto international language for business and it’s also at the base of the whole Computer Science sector.
The US won culturally a long time ago, and I doubt China will be able to beat them. Right now, if you need to do business with China, you speak English (or you try to, as they are terrible with the language) and will continue with this trend.
BTW, US+Europe is still stronger than China economically, and if you add India and half of the African continent as English speaking developing countries, then a switch to mandarin seems even more unlikely.
Brand name. Imagine selling Xiaomi products with GoPro price tags.
why bother?
just spend the money on english translations and software upgrades which will attract more people.
GoPro name will eventually be bought for cents on the dollar and stuck on household items, just like atari and polaroid.