264: Chapter 264 Rice Officially Announces Overseas Expansion Plan

Lei Jun's expression remained unchanged on the surface, but his hand gripping the teacup tightened slightly.

"May I ask when?"

"Soon."

Lei Jun stared intently at Shen Fei, wanting to see a trace of a lie in his eyes, but unfortunately, there was no change at all.

"Mr. Shen, can we divide the market? Transsion takes the high-end market, and we take the low-end market."

Shen Fei put down his teacup and looked at Lei Jun with an expression like he was looking at a fool.

"Mr. Lei, do you think that's possible?"

Thinking of Transsion's full supply chain, especially its dominance in the low-end market, he laughed awkwardly.

"Impossible. But I still wanted to ask."

Shen Fei also smiled, easing the situation.

"Mr. Lei, I'm not afraid of competing with you, but I don't want to either.

The Chinese market is big enough, and the Indian market is also big enough.

Instead of draining each other, it's better to go out and grab territory together."

Lei Jun didn't believe Shen Fei's words at all. Although multiple manufacturers could exist in one price segment, Transsion pulled prices so low that it clearly didn't want to leave a way for other manufacturers to survive.

"Mr. Lei, don't doubt it. Markets like India, the Middle East, and Latin America are big enough for both Xiaomi and Transsion to survive."

Lei Jun finally reached out his hand, but it didn't mean he believed what Shen Fei said.

Immediately after, the two shook hands.

"Mr. Shen, no matter what happens in the future, I'll remember this meal today."

The two clinked glasses again.

The two chatted a bit more, though it's unknown what they talked about. However, Lei Jun discovered that his own layout was still too small.

...

So early the next morning, Dami Company announced: "Xiaomi phones will officially launch an international strategy, with the first battle landing in the Indian market.

First phone: Redmi First Generation Indian Edition."

Below was a bar chart, the bottom was 749, representing the starting price of the Redmi First Generation, and the top was 999; the price of the Indian version was between these two.

This let many Mi Fans breathe a sigh of relief; fortunately, they weren't making money domestically to subsidize overseas.

"Congratulations to Mr. Lei for officially entering the Indian market. Domestic goods are setting sail, stepping onto the world stage step by step. From now on, it's International Xiaomi. So proud!"

"Looking at the promotional image, it should be a bit more expensive than domestic. That's how it should be, unlike the neighbor Transsion... selling so cheap abroad while reaping leeks domestically."

"It's a happy day, don't mention those unhappy things.

Overseas layout is the general trend. Xiaomi is popular wherever it goes due to its cost-effectiveness and complete ecosystem. Now, creating excellent results in the Indian market will let more people see Chinese technological strength."

"Yo, getting rational, are we?

Let's not talk about overseas for now. Redmi's reputation in China is uneven, and there are constant controversies about product quality.

They haven't even stood firm in the domestic market, yet they are rushing to develop the Indian market. Could it be they are running away because they can't compete?"

"To the person above, the enjoy 2 was just released. Let's give them some face; don't be so blunt, okay?"

"I want to know if the Redmi First Generation will still lag after going to the Indian market?"

"Hehe, if they change the memory, it probably won't lag as much.

But if that happens, domestic Redmi users will become big suckers."

In Kyoto, Lei Jun had already anticipated the blessings and the dark smearing from Mi Fans, but what he worried about was that there was no response from Transsion.

Could it be that the Indian market was really a trap set by Transsion for him? But what kind of pit could there be in a huge market with a population of 1 billion?

Besides, only he, Lei Jun, pits others; there's no way others can pit him.

No, the person who could pit him hasn't been born yet!

But just then, Lin Bin ran over in a panic: "Old Lei, it's bad."

"What's bad?"

"Transsion International has launched an Indian partition, and there's a 30-day countdown."

Lei Jun wasn't afraid; instead, he laughed.

With a countdown, this wasn't a bad thing, but a good thing...

...

On June 13th, Google's lawsuit was delivered to the industrial headquarters.

At that time, Shen Fei was in his office looking at the report on the Taishan 920.

When Huang Tianya pushed the door open, he seemed to have found an excuse.

"Boss, Google has sued us in the United States."

Shen Fei opened the thick lawsuit, flipped to the first page and the last page to take a look.

It was written very professionally, but there was only one core accusation.

Transsion's Taishan System infringed on Android's intellectual property rights.

"They claim that Taishan System is a derivative version of Android, but it didn't comply with Google's compatibility agreement, constituting technical infringement."

Huang Tianya smiled, then sat down on the sofa next to him very naturally and picked up the teapot to pour himself a cup.

Recently, there were no opportunities in the United States, so the Investment Minister was idle again.

Shen Fei threw the lawsuit on the table.

"Just this?"

"Just this?" Huang Tianya looked at him, "So this just happened to give us a good excuse."

Shen Fei leaned back in his chair and nodded as well.

"Exactly. I was still wondering how to avoid going to the Indian market, and now we finally have a good reason."

After all, since Transsion was being targeted by Google, the company needed to pull out a certain legal team to go to the United States to respond to the lawsuit.

As for why they couldn't enter a new market without the legal team, that was because...

Of course, it was because Transsion's ground promotion methods were a bit different, and they constantly needed lawyers to help bail people out.

As for Google's lawsuit? Every line of code in the Taishan System was written by Liu Zhihong and his team.

Based on open-source AOSP, complying with the Apache 2.0 agreement, what could Google possibly sue Transsion for?

At this moment, Li Qing knocked on the door and walked in.

"Mr. Shen, public opinion has already started online. As soon as the news of Google's lawsuit came over, there were paid trolls in China stirring up trouble, saying that Taishan System was plagiarism and that Transsion was losing face for the Chinese people."

Shen Fei opened Weibo and took a look at the trending topics.

Sure enough, the number one trending topic that a certain singer wanted to take down, Transsion easily got it again.

#Google Sues Transsion for Infringement#

In the comment section, opinions were very divided, but they were also very realistic.

"If Transsion plagiarized, it's plagiarism. Don't talk about being based on open source; it's shameful."

"What do you understand? AOSP is open source, anyone can use it. Google is just hegemonism."

"Regardless, being sued by Google, Transsion is in trouble this time."

"I didn't expect that what defeated Transsion Auto wasn't a car company, but Google..."

Shen Fei finished reading and put down his phone.

"Li Qing, is the explanation of Taishan System still on the official website?"

"Yes. It has been on the official website since we released our first mobile phone."

"That's enough." Shen Fei nodded, "Notify the legal department to prepare for the lawsuit.

Since we have to cooperate with Lei Jun's acting, let's act to the end.

Then issue a statement, listing the architecture of Taishan System, the compliance with open-source agreements, and the differences from Android, and make it public."