Do they? From what I understood they don't have good efficiency.
> Their Roomba and Fitbit clones are great
(Haven't checked their Roomba.)
The Amazfit Bip cannot disable Bluetooth. Battery life is decent though.
> Almost forgot their sonic toothbrush and wiha screwdrivers (I don't even know what they're clones of)
The iFixit screwdriver set is the one I got. What I paid for it (during a Black Friday deal) isn't that much off the wiha screwdriver set from Xiaomi. And you support an organization which is part of the Right To Repair movement.
I got one of Xiaomi's Bluetooth speakers as well. I also got a Dafang camera of them. They're both decent and cheap, but not great. Which sums up my Xiaomi experience. Its not as if Xiaomi is so good quality; rather the rest from China is terrible, and we accept it apparently as such (yes some Western brands also deliver abysmal experience but then you got decent warranty).
And over time Dropbox ended up creating unique features and a value that stands on its own.
In this case, the Apple ecosystem limited Apple’s thinking and both Box and Dropbox were able to move to create unique value. And frankly, good for them.
Jup! And what's with the pricing? The next best tier is 2 TB? Why isn't there an option, with say 100gb, 3-4 bucks a month and not annoyingly trying to sell me some stuff when I'm just using 25% of my space.
I would buy it in an instant.. but for 10 dollars a month so that I use 2% of that space? Sorry, then I will look somewhere else..
Well, it’s not “valuable” enough to make Dropbox profitable and for the same price you can get Office 365 with 6TB of storage and the complete office suite.
The main reason Dropbox exists (along with WhatsApp) is that Apple is unwilling to support its "unique" ecosystem features (iCloud, iMessage) on other platforms (they only make it a "feature" of their own platform to increase its perceived value and attract users). So if you want cross-platform, you have to use 3rd party stuff (Dropbox, WhatsApp).
I think the key focus should be “immigrant” culture.
If you’re in Asia, (which is like saying Africa or Europe), and as long as you don’t stay in the expat bubble, you will meet so many different types of people.
However, one thing to note is how assertive Asians are treated in the workplace,
> East Asians who don't conform to racial stereotypes are less likely to be popular in the workplace. "In general, people don't want dominant co-workers," says Berdahl, "but they really don't want to work with a dominant East-Asian co-worker."
Ingroup biases (race, class, religion) don't really become a factor until the outgroup is assertive. I saw this firsthand as a foreigner in Korea. The first few years I kept my head down and was treated well. "He's just like a Korean." As I became more confident at work, my coworkers started playing politics to hold me back. (One of them used race explicitly to form a coalition.) Nowdays I don't play politics, and my performance is good, but I still get a lot of comments about my "attitude" from my boss. Nevermind that people I don't report to directly love working with me.
Hell, it doesn't even have to be Asia. As a white dude working in Australia I found myself on the wrong side of arguments and perceptions cuz I had a different accent.
