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Chapter 264 Rice Officially Announces Overseas Expansion Plan

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

"Could I ask when?"

"Soon."

Lei Jun stared intently at Shen Fei, trying to see a hint of a lie in his eyes, but unfortunately, nothing changed.

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

Shen Fei put down his teacup and looked at Lei Jun with an expression as if he were looking at an idiot.

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

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

"Impossible. But I still want to ask."

Shen Fei also smiled and eased the situation.

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

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

Instead of wasting time together, let's go out and seize territory together.

Lei Jun didn't believe Shen Fei's words at all. Although multiple manufacturers could exist in a price range, Transsion had clearly not wanted to leave any room for other manufacturers to survive by lowering the price so much.

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

Lei Jun finally extended his hand, but that didn't mean he believed what Shen Fei said.

The two then shook hands.

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

The two clinked glasses again.

The two chatted for a while longer, but it's unclear what they discussed. However, Lei Jun realized that his plans were still too limited.

…………

So the next morning, the rice company announced: "The rice mobile phone will officially launch its internationalization strategy, with its first battle to be launched in the Indian market."

First phone: Redmi Original Indian Version.

Below is a bar chart with 749 at the bottom, representing the starting price of the first-generation Redmi phone, and 999 at the top. The price of the Indian version is in between these two.

This gave many Xiaomi fans a sigh of relief, thankfully it wasn't about making money domestically to subsidize overseas.

"Congratulations to Mr. Lei on officially entering the Indian market! Chinese products are setting sail and gradually moving onto the world stage. They'll be international rice in the future! That's fantastic!"

"Judging from the promotional images, it should be a bit more expensive than in China. That's to be expected, unlike Douyin (TikTok)... where it's sold so cheaply overseas, while they fleece consumers in China."

"On such a joyous occasion, don't bring up unpleasant things."

Expanding overseas is an inevitable trend. With its cost-effectiveness and well-developed ecosystem, rice is popular everywhere, and its recent success in the Indian market is showcasing China's technological prowess to a wider audience.

"Oh, so you're being rational now."

Leaving aside overseas markets, Redmi's reputation in China is mixed, with ongoing controversies surrounding its quality control.

They haven't even established a foothold in the domestic market, yet they're rushing to expand into the Indian market. Are they just running away because they can't win?

"Hey upstairs, Enjoy 2 was just released. Let's give them some face and not be so blunt, okay?"

"I want to know if the original Redmi phone still lags in the Indian market?"

"Hehe, if we replace the memory, it shouldn't be so laggy."

However, if that's the case, then domestic Redmi users will be the ones who suffer the most.

In Kyoto, Lei Jun had anticipated both the blessings from fans and the smears from the authorities, but he was worried that there would be no response from the other end of the communication channel.

Could it be that the Indian market was really a trap set by Transsion? But what kind of pitfalls could there be in a huge market with 10 billion people?

Moreover, it's only Lei Jun who cheats others; no one else gets to cheat Lei Jun.

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

But just then, Lin Bin rushed over in a panic: "Old Lei, something bad has happened!"

"What's wrong?"

"Transsion International has launched a regional division for India, and there's a 30-day countdown."

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

Having a countdown isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing...

…………

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

At that time, Shen Pei was in his office reading the Taishan 920 report.

When Huang Tianya pushed the door open and came in, it was as if he had found an excuse.

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

Shen Fei opened the thick indictment and took a look at the first and last pages.

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

Transsion Taishan system infringes on Android's intellectual property rights.

"They claim that the Taishan system is a derivative of Android but does not comply with Google's compatibility agreements, thus constituting a technology infringement."

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

There haven't been any hot trends in the US lately, so he, the Minister of Investment, has been idle again.

Shen Fei threw the indictment on the table.

"That's all?"

"That's all?" Huang Tianya looked at him. "So this just happens to give us a good reason."

Shen Fei leaned back in his chair and nodded in return.

"That's right, I was just wondering how not to go to the Indian market, now I finally have a good reason."

After all, Transsion was being targeted by Google, and the company needed to allocate a portion of its legal team to respond to the lawsuit in the United States.

As for why we can't enter new markets without a legal team, that's because...

Of course, the ground promotion method of Chuanyin is a bit different, and lawyers are always needed to help bail people out.

As for Google's lawsuit? Every line of code for the Taishan system was typed out by Liu Zhihong and his team.

Based on the open-source APOS and in accordance with the Apache 2.0 license, Google is suing Transsion. What grounds does Google have for this lawsuit?

At that moment, Li Qing knocked on the door and came in.

"President Shen, there's already some discussion online. As soon as the news of Google's lawsuit came over, some people in China started stirring things up, saying that the Taishan system was plagiarized and that Transsion is disgracing the Chinese people."

Shen Fei opened Weibo and glanced at the trending topics.

As expected, the top spot on the trending searches that a certain singer wanted to take was easily secured by Transsion.

#Google sues Transsion for copyright infringement#

The comments section is filled with conflicting opinions, yet they all reflect reality.

"Transsion copied it, that's all. It's shameful to say it's based on open source."

"What do you know? AOSP is open source; anyone can use it. Google is just a hegemon."

"No matter what, being sued by Google is bad news for Transsion."

"Unexpectedly, it wasn't a car company that defeated Transsion Motors, but Google..."

After reading it, Shen Fei put his phone down.

"Li Qing, is the information about the Mount Tai system still available on the official website?"

"Yes. It's been on our official website ever since we released our first phone."

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

Since we're going to play along with Lei Jun's act, let's play it to the end.

Then issue a statement, listing all the differences between the property system architecture, open-source license compliance, and Android, and make them public.