Another Xiaomi Shocker

Nowhere nearly as shocking as his first Xiaomi shocker, which was that in the actual product photos for the phone, the camera lenses were the Apple Aperture logo.

Stealing and copying are part of the Xiami's DNA, you will be even more suprised when Xiami's CEO copy the way how Steve Jobs anounce new product: http://cdn.unwire.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/xiaomi-one-m...

I dont think the slide or Photos were the shocker. ( May be that is what i expect them to be. ) The comment from Barra was the real shocker.

Barra is only a year into his job as leader of Mi’s internationalization efforts, but he’s already “sick and tired” of hearing his company derided as an Apple copycat. He sees Mi as “an incredibly innovative company” that never stops trying to improve and refine its designs, and the allegations of it copying Apple are “sweeping sensationalist statements because they have nothing better to talk about.”

The marketing department apparently has no scruples or is incompetent.

Why are we targeting Chinese here? Remember the Nokia episode where they were filming with professional cameras and showing that video as made by Nokia phones? Here is the link http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads...

> Is passing off photos taken with professional SLRs as shots from their phone’s camera.

To be fair, the photos are not used in a context where they could be expected to be representative of the camera quality, nor does the higher quality of the original photos make a difference in the small thumbnails.

In Chinese culture copying and making it better is encouraged I think.

"The phone didn't take those pictures!? Next you'll tell me Terry Crews doesn't even use Old Spice either!"

Does he really think anyone expects to get professionally retouched photos out of a phone?

As for licensing, I mainly wonder if the girl receives a cut of the income or if she's simply exploited either way.

Media folks have a lot of time in their hands.

" Chinese " No offence but they copy everything

It appears to me, that you are jumping the gun too soon here. The photos, might have been ripped off by a good for nothing designer from the marketing dept. There are countless good photos out there, who has the time to check that some stupid-running-late guy/gal did something like this, specially when it is hard work to go and take such artistically/professional photos.