Xiaomi Ecology VS Huawei Ecology VS Apple Ecology, would you really choose？

With the continuous development and renewal of the times, smart home has gradually emerged in people’s field of vision. Because the promotion scope of smart home in China is not very wide at present, the market is still a huge blue ocean. It can be said with certainty that although the smart home market presents a state of dispute in the Warring States Period, with more powerful players entering the game, smart home has changed from a concept to a kind of productivity.

At present, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Apple are the most representative of the well-known ecological chains, which have enabled us to achieve sustainable self-reliance and smooth and seamless home. But in comparison, what is the difference between these three, and how should we choose?

Performance aspect

Apple’s smart home was born very early, but there are still not many third-party HomeKit products today. But there is no doubt that in addition to the long-standing network problem of mobile phones, Apple’s ecological software and hardware are highly coordinated to ensure ecological stability and non-inductive experience.

Huawei’s original ecological experience in the EMUI environment has been almost the same as that of Apple. Since the ecological equipment was gradually upgraded to the HarmonyOS system, the ecological products are comparable to Apple in the interconnection experience, and they have long been in the forefront of the world in the underlying communication processing of equipment interconnection, and their stability is also excellent.

What’s more, Huawei’s HarmonyOS system adopts micro-service distributed technology, which breaks the shackles of single device performance and shows strong synergy, and may be the best solution for Internet of Things devices in the future.

Xiaomi takes the cost-effective and DIY route, and its whole-house intelligent scheme is to build a smart home ecosystem with many eco-chain enterprises around the Mijia platform, which has a high cost performance, but there are still some products that are different from Huawei and Apple in terms of ease of use, sensitivity, fluency and stability.

On the whole, Apple ≥ Huawei > Xiaomi.

Ecological chain diversity

From the domestic market, Xiaomi > Huawei > Apple.

Apple Eco-chain is a family bucket design for iPhone+iPad+Mac. It is roughly the relationship between hardware, software and system, and they cooperate with each other to form an ecosystem. However, it is difficult for a single product and system to reflect the advantages of the Apple ecosystem.

Apple official website saw that there are only 21 HomeKit accessories (40 in official website, USA), which cover bridges, cameras, lighting, routers, sockets, sensors, switches, etc., and the prices are relatively expensive. If you want to use HomePod mini to control the voice of the whole house, you have to buy several more, one for 749 yuan, otherwise you can only control it through Siri or Home application on iPhone or iPad.

Huawei takes 1+8+N as its strategy, in which 1 and 8 are laid out by Huawei, and N is basically supplemented by a third-party manufacturer, so that the appliances that meet the technical standards of HiLink can be connected to Huawei’s whole-house intelligent system and controlled by HarmonyOS system.

Huawei is more front-loaded, emphasizing high-end, and can better experience smart life.

Contrary to Huawei, Xiaomi takes the post-installation route at the commodity level, which can be mainly divided into three stages: occupying the market by means of hardware (mobile phone), forming the market foundation, shaping the business layout of Xiaomi in the next stage through the ecological chain to help enterprises continue to grow, and seeking breakthroughs through IOT.

Therefore, Xiaomi and many eco-chain enterprises have jointly built a smart home ecosystem around the Mijia platform, with many products and a wide distribution of eco-chains.

price

This is also very easy to draw from the previous conclusions.In terms of price, Apple ≥ Huawei > XiaomiIf the budget is sufficient, directly choosing Huawei and Apple is the best choice.

conclusion

Huawei Ecology: High-end positioning, diverse design styles, rich ecological chain diversity, strong stability, strong performance and strong expansibility;

Xiaomi ecology: positioning the middle end, unified design style, super-rich ecological chain diversity, strong performance and strong expansibility;

Apple ecology: high-end positioning, diverse design styles, general ecological chain diversity, strong stability, super performance and strong expansibility.

However, no matter Xiaomi, Huawei or Apple, they all have the same limitation, that is, we have to consider whether the products we buy are an ecosystem or not, and consider the linkage between products clearly. Otherwise, many smart items we buy can only go their own way and cannot be linked with each other, which will bring unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, before the smart home ecology in into the pit, we also need to think about our own needs and product experience before buying.