雷军公布小米的时候,我还在三星工作。记得当时在北京和一个朋友见面,他车还没停稳就已经开始问我对于小米的看法。我说,小米如果只是卖手机,能赚钱,但成不了气候。因为单就手机的业务模式来说,小米和那时华强北盛行的山寨机没有什么区别,唯一也是最关键的不同是小米有雷军加持。尽管小米最开始走的是早已被市场验证过的模式,而且还有品牌及资源的强势导入,雷军对于小米的未来依然惴惴不安。雷军后来说过这样一段话:“小米开始的那一年半,我不允许任何人讲小米是我雷军办的。那一年半里,我也不接受任何媒体的采访。 When Lei Jun announced Xiaomi, I was still working at Samsung. I remember when I met a friend in Beijing, he had already begun to ask my opinion about millet before he stopped. I said that if millet just sell cell phones, can make money, but can not become climate. Because the business model alone, the millet and Huaqiang North at that time the prevalence of cottage no difference between the only and most crucial difference is millet Lei Jun blessing. Although the millet was the first to have been modeled by the market has been proven, but also the strong brand and resource introduction, Lei Jun for millet’s future is still uneasy. Lei Jun later said something like this: ”During the year and a half of the beginning of millet, I did not allow anyone to tell you that millet was done by Lei Jun and I did not accept any media interviews for that year and a half.