Clay Shirky

Little Rice

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Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer. Its high-end phones are tailored to Chinese and emerging markets, where it outsells even Samsung. Since the 1990s China has been climbing up the ladder of quality, from doing knockoffs to designing its own high-end goods.Xiaomi — its name literally means “little rice” — is landing squarely in this shift in China's economy. But the remarkable rise of Xiaomi from startup to colossus is more than a business story, because mobile phones are special. The common desiderata of the global population, mobile phones offer the kind of freedom and connectedness that autocratic countries are terrified of. China's fortune and future clearly lie with “opening up” to the global market, requiring it to allow local entrepreneurs to experiment.Clay Shirky, one of the most influential and original thinkers on how technological innovation affects social change around the world, now turns his attention to the most populous country of them all. The case of Xiaomi exemplifies the balancing act that China has to perfect to navigate between cheap copies and innovation, between the demands of local and global markets, and between freedom and control.
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137 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • vvxshared an impression8 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable

    Мало того, что Xiaomi - это пшено, так ведь ещё какое! Ширки коротко и ясно рассказывает и о компании, и об особенностях IT-бизнеса в Китае, и о проблемах самого Китая. Очень интересно.

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  • vvxhas quoted8 years ago
    I asked if Nokia’s management had an answer to the iPhone. He replied grimly, “They don’t even understand the question.”
  • vvxhas quoted8 years ago
    there are only three universally personal items that someone will carry with them no matter where they live. The first two are money and keys; the third is the mobile phone, making it the first new invention added to that short list in three thousand years.
  • vvxhas quoted8 years ago
    single greatest resource for understanding China’s day-to-day political and economic issues is Bill Bishop’s Sinocism (sinocism.com) newsletter, which appears at a rate of about three a week. Bishop
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