According to a report from a little over a week ago, it was suggested that Xiaomi had managed to ship 35 million devices in the first half of 2015. Now as we pointed out shipped and sold are two very different things as the latter simply indicates potential demand while the latter actually affects revenue.
Well Xiaomi has since confirmed in a press release sent to us that they have indeed sold nearly all the units that they have shipped. To be more specific, Xiaomi has confirmed that they have sold 34.7 million smartphones and this is only in the first half of 2015, indicating that by the time 2015 is out, chances are we could be looking at possibly close to 70 million units sold.
According to the company’s CEO and founder, Lei Jun, “Even with the China smartphone market slowing down, we did a stellar job of posting a 33% growth on last year’s numbers. It can be said that we outperformed the market and produced an excellent report card.” Xiaomi’s growth is phenomenal and it has even displaced big time players and industry veterans such as Samsung in China.
It should also be noted that these sales largely take place in Asia where Xiaomi mostly operates, so imagine how much those numbers will increase should the company ever debut in the US, which last we heard was still in the cards.
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