Xiaomi may be in legal trouble for calling its smartphones the best

Most countries have numerous regulations that prevent companies from falsely advertising their products, but those companies also have a bunch of tricks that help them get around these regulations. Easily the most common of these is the use of superlatives such as “best” and “first-class” to describe products, which are technically not false advertising even if the product is a piece of crap because they’re subjective descriptions. Unfortunately for Xiaomi, however, China recently passed a new advertising law that prevents the use of such superlatives, which Xiaomi has apparently violated with the use of the word “best” to describe one of its smartphones.