The collision of the two giants, who will have the last laugh in the battle of smart home

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and rivers and lakes need a martial arts leader. Xiaomi has attracted a large number of fans with the high cost performance of its products; Huawei is the first in global communication technology and is praised for its technology. A battle of cost-effectiveness and technology, in this arena of smart home, the battle for the leader of the Wulin alliance is imminent. After three years of development, Xiaomi's smart home system has become complete. At present, the hardware connected to the Xiaomi ecosystem has reached 60 million units. Huawei, on the other hand, wants to use routers as the center to break through the barriers between home appliance manufacturers to conduct a new round of penetration. Both companies are in their own way, playing in their own areas of expertise. Core competitiveness PK: Xiaomi has high cost performance, Huawei has technology Since Xiaomi was established, it has always attracted fans with its high cost performance, and Huawei has used technology to join hands with channel partners. Previously, Xiaomi released a table of Xiaomi smart home products, ranging from smart switches as low as about 30 yuan to smart rice cookers, Xiaomi TVs, refrigerators, etc., which ranged as high as 3,000 yuan. The price of Xiaomi's smart home 'family bucket' does not exceed 40,000 yuan. Xiaomi takes the high cost performance of smart home products as a marketing selling point, and wins the favor of many consumers with its low price and good product performance. Smart homes are characterized by interconnectivity, and connectivity is exactly Huawei's advantage. The difference between Huawei and Xiaomi is that Xiaomi's router is a product transformed from core hardware into an ecological chain, while Huawei takes the router as the center, and Huawei, the world's number one in communication technology, chooses the router as the entry point. Some news channels have reported that Huawei routers can maintain an ecosystem with a plug-in application through protocol conversion, and each ecologically intelligent device may become part of Huawei's smart home. In this regard, Huawei's smart home ecosystem, which has won seven ecosystems, has clearly surpassed Xiaomi in terms of device types and models. Judging from the current situation, compared with the mid-to-high-end market supported by Huawei's technology, Xiaomi's high cost performance seems to be slightly pale. In the long run, Huawei has the ability to sustainably develop a smart home ecological platform, and the continuous expansion and open communication technology seems to be more courageous and strategic than Xiaomi's cost-effectiveness. Ecological PK: Xiaomi has formed an intelligent ecological chain, while Huawei is trying to build an intelligent ecosystem. Some netizens once ridiculed, 'If you are unsure of which brand to buy among similar products, choose Xiaomi. Almost all kinds of products are involved in Xiaomi.' Although it is a joke, it is not unreasonable. From the beginning of the layout to the formation of the current ecological chain, the intelligent ecological chain built by investment cooperation, equity participation and non-controlling has gradually stabilized. Xiaomi's ecological chain is based on the mobile phone as the core, and is surrounded by three layers of ecological chains, which are surrounded by mobile phone peripherals, smart hardware, and living consumables. Unlike Huawei, Huawei tries to create an ecosystem surrounded by technologies, platforms, and channels, and pursues the smart market from a broader perspective. Huawei seeks common ground while reserving differences, and is keen to cooperate with channel partners such as the home furnishing industry to jointly develop first-class products. Huawei's olive branch with an open and cooperative attitude has received responses from many manufacturers. Big-name manufacturers such as Op Lighting, Galanz, and Changhong have all reached cooperation with Huawei. At present, the products of the ecological chain on Huawei's official website mall are rich and diverse, and the major appliances category is not inferior to Xiaomi. According to Huawei's official figures, by the end of 2018, the HiLink ecosystem will introduce more than 500 smart home appliances in more than 70 categories, which will be sold in more than 1,000 retail experience stores across the country. How recognizable is this message? Can look forward to it for the time being. Huawei uses channels to find partners in related industry chains in a win-win manner. It wants to use the strength of more enterprises to create an open platform by opening up its own communication technologies, and to provide more efficient and fast solutions with channel partners. , in order to support their ambition to build an intelligent ecosystem. The battle is getting more and more intense. Although Huawei has a wider field of vision and a wider range of coverage, judging from the current ecological chain that Xiaomi has formed and is becoming more mature, the ecological PK seems to have the upper hand for Xiaomi. However, the two appear to be majestic in armor and occupy the limelight of the industry, but in fact each has its own shortcomings. User experience or who has the last laugh. Since the concept of smart home was put forward, the war between various manufacturers has never stopped, but the pattern of the smart home market is not yet clear. From the current form, Xiaomi has a large number of fans, and Huawei has powerful technology. In addition, as the major giants enter the market one after another, it will undoubtedly make the battle for the masters of the smart home martial arts more fierce. The battle between manufacturers is in full swing, but the current smart home products can not satisfy consumers. At present, the domestic smart home industry is still in its infancy, coupled with the abuse of intelligence by some small manufacturers, so that consumers are not satisfied with the smart home A certain distrust arises,This has hindered the popularization of smart home to some extent. Although Xiaomi was surpassed by Huawei in the 2018 smart home brand rankings, it is not lost to Huawei in terms of Xiaomi's current influence, and the smart home ecological chain that has been formed still has considerable advantages. The times create heroes, and who can ascend to the throne of the Wulin League leader in the future? After all, the Wulin League leader is also chosen by consumers.