Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
This quote from Jony Ive really made me feel for the guy:“When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it’s copied. I have to be honest, the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn’t. I think it’s theft, and it’s lazy.”Xiaomi have done this to others. Their new air filter for example basically clones a Japanese design and sells it for a fraction of the price:
http://www.gizmochina.com/2014/12/09/xiaomis-air-purifierbor...