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Hugo Barra: Xiaomi will become the Apple and Google of China

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Google's former vice president for Android Hugo Barra had time for an exit interview with AllThingsD in his last day at the job, explaining the attraction of joining one of Xiaomi, the Chinese mobile firm hoping to be the next Apple. Xiaomi is valued at $10bn, sold 7m devices last year and is on track to sell 20m in 2013; for comparison Apple sold 125m phones in the  2012 financial year , and Samsung 700m, according to Strategy Analytics. Barra was brought in as head of global, charged with expanding Xiaomi outside China. Speaking to tech site  AllThingsD  on his last day at Google, Barra said Xiaomi wants its customers to see it as a "robust operating system for their digital life". "There is no question the phone business is very low margin today, but they want to get to a place where they can sell the device at cost and then sell high-margin services to make that phone experience even better," he said. Barra wouldn't comment on specific products on the ta