Not long ago, the so-called Communications and Communications Committee NCC, including Lithuania and Taiwan, "sang one harmony" and created lies that Xiaomi mobile phones hide backdoors and built-in censorship functions. A few days ago, Xiaomi Group said that it received a notice from the German federal information security regulator and gave a "no abnormality" investigation conclusion.
A deliberately smeared lie is untenable in the face of facts. The German BSI "endorses" Xiaomi's information security, which once again confirms that Xiaomi maintains user privacy and security is a high standard and can withstand the test. At present, Xiaomi and Samsung's market share in Europe has shrunk to 2%, the blockage of lies has been eliminated, and Xiaomi's first position in Europe will be more stable.
The German investigation report was "no exception", and the lies of Lithuania and Taiwan were self-defeating
Lithuania
For some time now, at the instigation of the United States, some political forces in Lithuania have willingly acted as "anti-China pawns" and repeatedly challenged the bottom line of the "one-China" principle.
It is worth mentioning that a handful of people on the island of Taiwan who "oppose China and seek independence" have also "sung one song and one harmony" with Lithuania, echoing each other from afar, and even do not hesitate to create the lie of the so-called internal censorship function of Xiaomi mobile phones to mislead consumers.
In September 2021, the National Cybersecurity Center of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense prepared a report accusing Xiaomi of building in its flagship phones sold in Europe for detecting and removing more than 200 keywords involving sensitive words such as politics and religion.
On January 6, 2022, the so-called Communications Review Commission (NCC) on the island of Taiwan issued a complaint that in the Mi 10T 5G, the built-in 7 apps of the Xiaomi mobile phone Mi 10T will download more than 2,000 files (MiAdBlacklistConfig) that are compared with political, religious and other related words from the globalapi.ad.xiaomi.com server, with doubts about blocking the Internet or transmitting related browsing behavior back.
New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi
The so-called xiaomi report concocted by the NCC has a "word censorship" report, which echoes the previous lies in Lithuania. On January 7 this year, New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi was asked to express his position, saying that he "fully cooperated" with the review. Some people on the island, "anti-China and anti-to 'heartless madness'", the blue camp people have so stated, can not distinguish between right and wrong, what will ordinary consumers think?
At that time, Xiaomi immediately responded, pointing out that the MiAdBlacklistConfig file described in the report, although it exists as a fact, is only for controlling the content of advertising pushes, not for reviewing or monitoring users, and has nothing to do with consumer usage behavior. And the file is Xiaomi to manage the paid advertising content pushed by advertisers in Xiaomi's own APP, but it is actually designed to protect users from some content.
In fact, Adam Conway, a senior editor of foreign media XDA, pointed out in the report that "Xiaomi's secret word blacklist looks terrible, but it is not as scary as it seems", he used Mi 11 Ultra as a test, although he found MiAdBlacklistConfig files in Mi Video, the vast majority of keywords are related to administrative, pornographic or other mobile phone brands. The senior editor pointed out that words related to Xiaomi itself, such as mi, xiaomi mi5, etc. are also in the keyword list, then there is a logic that does not make sense, why should Xiaomi set up a review of its own keywords?
In fact, as Adam Conway editors say, not only Xiaomi, but also Facebook advertising policies, Google Ads content terms, and many smartphones have this common practice and norm. Xiaomi is the same, the filter is to protect users from seeing vulgar or inappropriate ads, and it is also a very important link.
Xiaomi headquarters also reiterated that "Xiaomi has never, and will not, restrict, return or block any personal behavior of mobile phone users, such as searching, making calls, browsing the web or using third-party communication software." User privacy and security is also our direction of struggle, and we will operate to higher standards and comply with local and regional laws and regulations in the future. ”
Germany
After Xiaomi was named by Lithuania as having information security concerns in September last year, Germany also actively investigated. Recently, Xiaomi Group received a notice from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). BSI has completed a survey of Xiaomi smartphones sold in Germany, and the survey report concludes that "no anomalies were found and no further investigation or other measures were required." In it, BSI pointed out in the report that it could not detect the transmission behavior of the referral filter list in the original report.
A Xiaomi spokesperson said that the results of the survey released by BSI confirm Xiaomi's corporate commitment to operate in a transparent and responsible manner, as well as Xiaomi's high priority for user privacy and security. At the same time, it also proves that Xiaomi complies with the EU and regional data privacy and security norms, and other EU common standards applicable to devices.
The German investigation report "no abnormality" is equivalent to "endorsing" Xiaomi's information security, and Lithuania and Taiwan's lies and deliberate smears on Xiaomi are self-defeating and untenable.
At a public event on January 17, Lithuanian Minister of Economy and Innovation Almonet said that Lithuania was concerned about the impact of neutral relations and hoped that relations between the two countries could be eased. She also acknowledged that "recent developments have not contributed to the attractiveness of Lithuania's investment climate". Previously, the President of Lithuania had said that it was a mistake for the Lithuanian government to let the Taiwan authorities open a "Taiwan representative office" in the name of "Taiwan." Frequent ridicule of Taiwan-related issues has caused the Lithuanian government to lose popularity while suffering economic losses.
Deliberately groundless accusations that Chinese companies Xiaomi have built-in censorship functions in mobile phones, and the German BSI investigation report has returned Xiaomi a clean slate, which will in fact have a negative impact on Lithuania's investment environment, "lifting a stone to drop on its own feet", which is not worth the loss.
The blockage is solved, and Xiaomi's position as the first in Europe is more stable
Xiaomi founder Lei Jun
On September 1 last year, Xiaomi Automobile was registered in Beijing, and it is said that the first factory is expected to land in Beijing Yizhuang. Lei Jun also announced in a high-profile manner that Xiaomi Automobile will achieve mass production in the first half of 2024.
Since Lei Jun announced the xiaomi car in March 2021, xiaomi cars have been a topic of concern to the outside world. If Xiaomi takes the route of self-research and development and self-production, objectively speaking, the registered capital of 10 billion yuan is not enough, and it will soon be spent.
Of course, Lei Jun did not build a car for the sake of making a splash, "the meaning of the drunkard is not in the wine, but also in the mountains and rivers." Lei Jun has said that doing the automobile business is not to "make the limelight", at present, electric vehicles have changed from the machinery industry to the information industry, plus peers are also doing, Xiaomi will be eliminated if it does not do.
In Lei Jun's view, Xiaomi from smart phones to smart homes and smart offices belongs to the all-intelligent ecology, and if it can be well integrated with electric vehicles, it will have strong expansion. Interestingly, Hon Hai founder Gou Taiming also made high-profile cars, and everyone has squeezed into this track, all of which have plans, and they cannot exert their advantages and potential in the industrial chain to obtain the opportunity of market competition.
Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group
No matter how Lei Jun loves to build cars, and whether Xiaomi's car will be as successful as Lei Jun expects, the mobile phone sector must be Xiaomi's "top priority" at present.
In the second quarter of last year, international research company IDC reported that Xiaomi mobile phone sales surpassed Apple, becoming the second in the world for the first time, with a global market share of 16.9%. In other words, for every six mobile phones sold in the world, there is one millet, and sales increased by 86.6% year-on-year. Squeezing into the world's second place made Lei Jun very happy: "I really didn't expect that today, 7 years later, we surpassed Apple and became the second in the world for the first time!" He also said excitedly: "There is more good news, we are in the first place in 22 countries. In developed markets like Europe, we have a staggering 25% market share. We reached the top of the European market and became number one! This is the first time that a Chinese company has achieved this achievement. ”
In the speech of "My Dream, My Choice", Lei Jun announced Xiaomi's next goal: three years, to win the world's first! Born in December 1969, Lei Jun, 53 years old this year, his millet has also entered the 12th anniversary, still young Lei Jun, time is his friend, he has spare energy to achieve his dream.
Lei Jun
According to research and statistics by DIGIMIES Research, global smartphone shipments will be about 1.32 billion units in 2021, an annual growth rate of only 6.1%. From the perspective of sales volume, the top six mobile phone brands in terms of sales in 2021 are Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, and Transsion, and the third to sixth places are all Chinese enterprises.
It seems that after Huawei's mobile phones were suppressed, sales showed a cliff-like decline in 2021, and the positions of Samsung and Apple's two giants were more stable in the top three. From the perspective of annual sales, Xiaomi's performance in the second quarter of last year rushed to the second place, which was temporarily "short-lived", and finally fell into Samsung and Apple, ranking third.
On December 28, 2021, when Xiaomi released its new flagship phone, Xiaomi 12, it was regarded by the market as a symbol of benchmarking the iPhone. Lei Jun also announced on the same day that it will increase its investment in research and development to 100 billion yuan in the next five years. Two years earlier, Lei Jun had announced that he would invest 50 billion yuan in research and development in the next five years, which was equivalent to doubling the size. Xiaomi also announced the establishment of a group software division with more than 3,000 engineers.
In the European market, Xiaomi is in a stage of rapid growth, surpassing Samsung for the first time in the second quarter of last year to become the market leader in Europe. However, as Xiaomi's strongest competitor, the market share of Samsung and Xiaomi narrowed to 2% in the second quarter of last year, and the gap did not open. Samsung, with a high degree of vertical integration, product lines and industrial chain is quite complete, and not bound by mobile phone chip manufacturing, objectively speaking, Lei Jun's challenge of fighting for the world's first is very stressful, and the day of Samsung's king will continue.
This time, the German BSI "endorsement" for Xiaomi's information security is equivalent to eliminating a blockage of consumer trust, which is a good thing for Lei Jun and Xiaomi, and Xiaomi's position as the first in Europe will be more stable.
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