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kent_eh@lemmy.ca 20 hours agoPresumably because it’s much cheaper.
There are reasons why it’s cheaper, and none of them improve your life.
Well today it’s maybe a bad idea (I havent really digged through it all recently but it seems to be a not good idea), but back in the day Xiaomi was the beast phone for cheap, with all the bells & whistles like swappable battery, sd card, good CPU & RAM etc. for a fraction of the cost of an iPhone or Samsung.
So well, time changes!
My 5 year old Xiaomi I got for €350 has about the same specs as an iPhone 16, except for the much better chip in the iPhone.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
There are plent of cheap chinese phones supported by lineage os tho.
bokherif@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Eh BIOS level rootkits have been around for a while. If uncle sam wants to watch you, believe me they will, just the same way uncle china does.