Shipments l 4 from a year ago because the Worlds Largest Smartphone Market is out of firsttime buyers. It is working out well for apple. In the first quarter, apple had the biggest cheer of chinas market followed by xiaomi. What does this mean for the world of tech giants . Joining us is brad stowe of Bloomberg Businessweek and ceo of bob, i will start with you. Bob it is entering a new phase. What we have seen over the last couple years is this in normans adoption of these smartphones, the tablets. In china in particular everybody is crazy about them. Those are the primary Computing Device of a of people in china. The reason why apple has done so well is of course, lots of people were waiting for the big version of the iphone. They finally got it. Things have done well. The things you have to be cautious about, i would argue samsung is the canary in the coal mine. They were first to the large smartphones. They did very well. Then they hit a wall. I think what will happen is, the rest
The company will on Thursday evening announce its official price range and start taking orders for the car, dubbed the SU7, with the SU short for Speed Ultra. CEO Lei Jun s comments, made on his official Weibo account, mark the first time the company has confirmed the upper end of its price range.
Anticipation for the car has been building up since Xiaomi unveiled the vehicle in December and announced it aimed to become one of the world s top five automakers. Lei has touted it as having technology capable of delivering acceleration better than Tesla cars and Porsche s EVs.