[echoless]

Looks like they've got the war-chest ready to defend against future lawsuits when they get into markets that actually take IP laws seriously.

Their hardware's actually decent, but they shamelessly ripoff Apple. They could have gone the route of providing the same hardware with stock android and getting treated like a credible company. Instead, they ripped off iOS wholesale.

[Giulalbez]

It was known when they launched, that xiaomi's interface look was apple "inspired", but besides that I dont know why it can be called shameless ripoff, sure there must be other reasons. The feel and look of the phone actually have some kind of own personality, is different from IOS and different from stock Android, and probably will get more different with time. Apple, probably, somewhere in time also took "inspiration" from other companies ideas.

[smackfu]

Why would they bother going into the EU or US?

[Giulalbez]

Their phones are already getting there, anyway.

[touristtam]

boohoohoo, this is the same argument over and over again. :p

Although I have yet to find how to block permissions per app on iphone. For the UI I don t see why this is even an issue. Xiaomi is selling an android device customized for the chinese market primarly and not a generic idevice (which would be impossible anyway).

I d like to think you are correct about pre empting future lawsuits.

disclosure: I own a Mi2s device in the uk and I am quite happy about it, despite the lack of 4G and sd card reader.