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Meanwhile, the scuttlebutt is that Xiaomi will miss Lei Jun’s ambitious goal of selling eighty million in 2015. The Chinese tech press estimates a shortfall of around sixteen million. Did Meizu account for that?
Additional:
Meizu sold over 20 Million Smartphones In 2015, Growth Rate Impressive!
I had no damn idea:
1) It was originally self-published
2) It was originally a serial
3) It was once free
Andy Weir and his book ‘The Martian’ may have saved NASA and the entire space program
The story unfolded as a serial over the course of several years. At the request of fans, Weir repackaged it in an e-reader version. Some readers struggled with the downloading process, so Weir then put it on sale at Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing, charging the required minimum of 99 cents per copy. More people downloaded it at that price than had ever downloaded it for free. They gave it positive reviews.
Not a single damn person in my bookish Twitterstream ever mentioned it to me.
And you would think Amazon would have pimped the shit out of it. They fell down on this job!
Podcast page: How Andy Weir Took ‘The Martian’ From Blog to Bestseller to Blockbuster Movie (Starring Matt Damon)
— thanks to @JulietaLionetti
Filed under Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, Marketing, Writer, Writing
On Monday, October 19, Xiaomi will announce several products.
A MiPad 2 is expected.
In the meantime, what to make of this?
Filed under Android, Marketing, Windows Tablets
Alibaba Rival JD.com Opens Its First U.S. Office In Silicon Valley
Wake me up when they get serious.
After making a noise about opening an English-language version of their site, something weird happened a few months ago where the URL led to a Russian-language version!
Now it’s back to English but worse than it was to begin with — and it was pretty bad from the start.
Stuck at the bottom, after you’ve been convinced, is this shit that should have been at the top:
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of SanDisk . The opinions and text are all mine.
SanDisk’s Connect Wireless Stick Is A Storage Problem Solver
Still, this is a good point, among several:
For context, right now on my desk is a OnePlus One, Moto X Play, Honor 7, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy Note 5. Now, all of these devices I have to spend some time with to be able to write about them. See how they hold up when at the gym, test what battery life I am getting and generally get a more hand-on feel for them. The problem is that they do not have my data on them. If I take the Galaxy Note 5 to the gym today, all my music is stored locally on my daily driver so I have noting to listen to. Well, this is where I have found the biggest use for the SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick. Any files you send to this stick can be accessed by any and all devices that you have.
I was thinking about that stick and iOS use last night. I must still investigate that in detail.
Now is a good time to remind everyone of this: FTC Disclosure.
Previously here:
Filed under Android, Marketing, Other Hardware
Filed under Marketing
It’s probably the delivery service Xiaomi has tested in another market. Order a Xiaomi phone and, if it’s possible, have it Ubered to you the same day.
Yes, I just verbed a noun. Because.
Filed under Marketing
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