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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. In the words of Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt, “ People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole! ”.