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Can't say I blame them. Phones are really close to being commodities. Samsung and Apple have the top end on lockdown. Xiaomi will obliterate you on the low and mid range. So your only real option is to dump huge amounts of cash into top photo and app folks and try to fight with the big two.

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Samsung has a decent mid range A/M series and you can replace Xiaomi with 'Chinese companies' but comment otherwise stands true.

I read somewhere that the Galaxy A51 was the biggest selling mid-range phone globally. It's about 30% of the price of a flagship, but there aren't huge compromises on performance and camera quality like there is on the A20, A10 series.

I wouldn't discard Huawei, they are on par with Samsung.

Huawei is basically dead as a consumer brand after USA and EU went after them [0]. They've re-branded most of their consumer stuff as Xiaomi.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-telecommunications-co...

Wait, what? Are you trying to say Xiaomi is rebranded subset of Huawei?

I'm not the parent author but they're both state sponsored enterprise.

I can't speak about wherever they're rebrands though, you'd have to take all their phones apart to figure that out.

Shouldn't the government own the majority of the shares for it to be a state sponsored enterprise? Or does it just have to offer tax breaks and subsidies?

> Or does it just have to offer tax breaks and subsidies?

I wish the definition included this, there are so many shitty corporations which depend on subsidies and tax breaks but happily privatise every penny they can.

I don't think EU ever targeted Huawei's consumer business. It's only the US for this exact one.

That's because the EU does not see China as a threat to its geopolitical and economic hegemony the way the US does.

Huawei has nothing to do with Xiaomi as far as I am aware. Yes same country of origin but that's all. Perhaps you can cite a reliable source to back up your claim?

In Europe, Huawei is still the third largest by market share, at ~15% [0]

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe

Did you mean their Honor brand instead of Xiaomi, which is an entirely different manufacturer?

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