"He is also selling millions of mobile phones that look a lot like iPhones [...] his company sold seven million mobile phones last year by using designs that mimic the look and feel of the iPhone and using marketing that seems right out of Apple’s playbook."

A bit like the Samsung Galaxy S3/S4 are resembling the iPhone. The Xiaomi M1/M2 are far from copycat GooPhone and the like, while the specification of the latest device from Xiaomi are matching or surpassing the Android competition (checking for yourself the different review on the internet) and the price is one of the lowest for this type of high end hand held device (we are talking about ~300 USD here).

I can not remember as well when Apple played so well on scarcity of supply for a new product, like Xiaomi and their flash sales.