Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 appears in the official teaser with a keyboard accessory

The ecosystem push kicked off from the company's bread and butter - MIUI. You see, Xiaomi was very early to the game of tacking on software upsells to its hardware.

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While Xiaomi didn't really make much on hardware, the software business of selling access to media, themes, wallpapers, ringtones, music streaming, and more continues to be a significant revenue driver.

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Xiaomi might have stepped away from ads, but it left lasting damage on the perception of Android as an operating system.

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The Xiaomi of 2022 is markedly different from the company that Lei Jun founded in 2010, but it hasn't veered too far from the essentials.

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MIUI still forms the basis of every Xiaomi phone, and the company's ambitions of building out a connected ecosystem have never been higher.

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Whether you agree with everything Xiaomi has done over the years or not, it is impossible to deny that the company was the OG value-king.

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Xiaomi set in motion many of the best value-oriented standards in the Android space today, even if it also introduced some questionable budget practices along the way.

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