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       Xiaomi didn't copy the MacBook Air, yet
       By: admin Date: December 30, 2014, 9:56 am
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       Yesterday, a number of tech sites wrote stories about the
       picture above, claiming that it showed an as-yet-unreleased
       laptop made by Chinese smartphone firm Xiaomi. "And, to no one's
       surprise" they said, "it looks just like a MacBook Air."
       Unfortunately, the story was wrong. A Xiaomi spokesperson denied
       that the laptop was theirs and others have pointed out that the
       image actually shows a genuine fake: an unapologetic MacBook Air
       rip-off built by some anonymous white label firm which
       troublemakers had photoshopped Xiaomi’s logo onto.
       The problem here isn’t whether or not Xiaomi copies Apple’s
       design (it definitely does — we wrote about this exact issue
       yesterday). The problem is that, in the eyes of the Western
       media, Xiaomi's copying has become the company’s defining
       narrative. So much so that a quick photoshop can create a story
       out of thin air, even when pretty much every company in the
       laptop industry has been taking the MacBook as the standard to
       beat for years (though, yes, if this story had been real it
       would have been a particularly egregious example.)
       At the moment, Xiaomi has no reason to care what Western
       consumers or the Western media think about it (we're not their
       customers). But if it ever wants to move out of China and start
       selling in countries where intellectual property rights are
       taken seriously, it’s going to have to make some changes, just
       like Samsung did. This doesn't just mean changing the media's
       narrative of course — it means hiring some decent designers, too
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