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by samfisher83 2121 days ago
What if they ban like xiaomi or one plus. Those are like the most popular phones in India.
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Indians would have to buy a more expensive phone from Samsung in the middle of a massive recession that gives them less money in their pockets.
Xiaomi now makes their phones in India.

https://in.event.mi.com/in/made-in-india

Only 65% of the value, and tbh, the R&D is in China, and most of the data collection that mi does benefits China much more than India. Hard to call it a phone "By India For India."
Yes following this logic India should emulate North Korea's Juche or go back to its old socialist days to keep 100% of the valye
I mean, I guess that would be a great benefit to the non-Chinese competitors then, Samsung, Google, Apple, etc. I don't see that this would be hugely disruptive to the country.

Is there some reason you think it would be?

Xiaomi phones are better and cheaper than Samsung, Google, and certainly Apple equivalents. The Mi 10 Ultra is ~780$ and is just flat out better than a 1200$ phone from Samsung, including the best camera of any phone bar none.
Xiaomi / Oneplus are ~50% of the cost of Samsung/Google/Apple phones
Are they? That hasn't been my experience in Canada but maybe pricing is different in India?

Could you point to some specific cheap phones by those companies so I could see if I can find comparable phones by non-Chinese companies?

extra tariffs on iPhones. Look here: https://www.mi.com/in/
At the top of that page is the Redmi 9a for 6,799. Here is a similar phone from samsung for Rs. 6,499.

https://www.91mobiles.com/samsung-galaxy-m01-core-32gb-price...

That Redmi has 8 cores (cpu released in 2020) compared to the Samsung with 4 cores (released in 2017).

On Antutu benchmark, the Redmi is almost 5x higher [0]. So I don't think they can be considered "similar".

[0]: https://gadgetversus.com/processor/mediatek-mt6739-vs-mediat...

people that buy Chinese phones won't buy Apple, maybe Samsung if they have no choice, with this Chinese phones you have good value deal.