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Almost unknown to all of those other globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest cellular phone manufacturer. Its high-end cell phones are designed to Chinese language and emerging markets, where it outsells even Samsung. Since the 1990s China has been climbing in the ladder of quality, from doing knockoffs to creating its high-end goods. Xiaomi - its name practically means "little grain" - is getting squarely in this change in China's current economic climate. But the impressive climb 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 independence and connectedness that autocratic countries are terrified of. China's fortune and future clearly rest with "checking" to the global market, necessitating it to allow local business people to experiment. Clay Shirky, one of the very most important and original thinkers how technological innovation influences cultural change around the earth, now converts his focus on the most populous country of them all. The truth of Xiaomi exemplifies the balancing action that China must perfect to understand between cheap copies and invention, between the needs of local and global markets and between independence and control. Cover design by Strick&Williams
