常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

take a page from someone's page

中国がgoogleの重役を雇いました。

Chinese Smartphone Maker Hires Google Executive
A main selling point for Chinese smartphones has been price. Xiaomi sells phones ranging from about $180 to $300, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research. That is less than half the price of high-end phones from Samsung or Apple, though slightly higher than comparably equipped devices from many other Chinese brands.

“The phones are not necessarily superior, but they have created a lot of buzz,” said Tom Kang, an analyst at Counterpoint. “They’ve realized that the differentiation you can do now with hardware or software is very marginal, and that the future will be about marketing.”

The chief executive of Xiaomi, Lei Jun, has taken a page from the marketing playbook of Steven P. Jobs, the late Apple co-founder, organizing flashy, on-stage product introductions at which he appears in jeans and black shirts.

注目するのは、take a page from someone's pageです。
意味は to behave or to do something in a way that someone else wouldですTake a page from someone's book - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
引用するというニュアンスでしょうか。
言われてみれば納得の行く表現です。
これから中国がスマホを使いどう動くのか気になるところです。(Sugar)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/technology/chinese-smartphone-maker-hires-google-executive.html?hp