Xiaomi goes head-to-head with Apple, skips 16 and directly launches the 17 series. Lei Jun: Fully benchmarking against the iPhone!
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Shortly after the release of the iPhone 17 last week, Xiaomi Group directly declared war, announcing that it would skip the 16 series and launch the Xiaomi 17 series phones. Behind this rare product naming strategy is an upgrade of Xiaomi’s comprehensive iPhone-benchmarking strategy five years into its push