That's comparing apple with rotten apples (Xiaomi). Rotten apples are cheaper but will give diarrhea to your phone with ads in future will make money from you than Apple ever will.
I don't get your facts about less viewership. If I am Nike, Coca Cola, Pepsi etc. I advertise for my brand value not exposure. But you (Star) are taking that away from me or ripping me off by forcing me to advertise on your regional channels. And for targeted ads their is always another flagship called 'Star Sports 1 Hindi.' Utilize it.
Star is digging their own grave by discouraging users from buying your their channels by putting airing same content on 30 channels. Cutting all the bulls#it aside which doesn't affect me. I hope they spare Nat Geo Wild and Baby TV atleast from IPL broadcast.