Spoiler: Xiaomi is #1 now.
I tried the Mi 8 Lite, honestly I'm not impressed. It's super cheap, which is really cool, but the OS it comes with is riddled with bloatware... Not sure it's worth it
I returned my last Samsung because it was riddled with bloatwear that could not be disabled or uninstalled
Facebook was one such app, if I disabled it, it would re-enable itself on reboots
And it wasn't even a cheap phone
when I got my S24+, it had Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, LinkedIn, Office 365, and OneDrive. I was able to uninstall all of them except OneDrive. I disabled OneDrive.
Good to know you can now uninstall them. I think my son has a Samsung now, I can check with him.
Depends on whether it comes from Samsung or via a phone company.
Either way, Universal Debloat Utility is your friend.
Canta is a very good tool for that
Well until they letting to unlock bootloader,it's nice cheap phones when u install custom os
That's a 6 year old phone, and they've cleaned that up a lot since, at least for western markets.
The new HyperOS although it functionally looks the same, feels way better.
Apart from the glass back, the 13T is an amazing phone IMO.
but the OS it comes with is riddled with bloatware…
As opposed to Samsung and Apple? Right...
I'd say Samsung is comparable, but Apple... Isn't the goal of buying an iPhone to have a closed environment? (or was)
Yeah other commenter was incorrect. They’re sold with only a basic collection of first-party apps (even the carrier locked devices, so far).
To get one with third-party apps pre-installed requires special provisioning meant for employee work phones. (If you come across one of these in the wild, ask the seller to reset in front of you. If the bloatware remains, odds are the device was recently stolen.)
Samsung from a phone vendor like Verizon is bloated, but not one from Samsung (well, except the Samsung crap like Bixby).
Xiaomi are listening to their customers!
Literally. 😅
Not really a surprise considering the size of their domestic market. An interesting statistic would be each of these vendor's shares outside of their home country. I'm particularly curious at Apple's share without the US's iPhone majority.
Xiaomi isn't actually that big in China AFAIK. There is a lot of competition, not just from Apple but all the other Chinese vendors, most of whom are larger. Huawei, Honor, VIVO and Oppo all have at least an equivalent, if not larger, segment of the Chinese market.
I don’t know what it looks like now. In 2019, at least in one of the cities I went to, it seemed like everyone had a XiaoMi
Whelp it’s a shame that xiaomi is now going to end up on the entity list.
I started using Xiaomi Redmi Note 7pro back in 2019 and have upgraded every year. At $300 average price tag, it is a fantastic device. HyperOS is really good and my current Redmi Note 13pro came with some garbage but it was easy to remove/disable.
Typing this comment from a Note 7 pro, from 2019. Other than lacking os updates, it serves me well for all my usecases.
I bought an umidigi Bison Pro 3, years ago. It's still going strong with no noticeable issues
I tried to get a custom ROM but they don't seem to exist, people call this a garbage brand (it may be, I don't know) but it has served me well and I'm happy to have paid $250 for a fast phone so I can constantly chat with my wife and browse Lemmy... Why would I pay $1000 for a "flagship" phone to do those 2 same, completely non critical, tasks?
Security and software updates
Fair. Although Motorola also left me in the dust with my precious phone, but I was able to find custom ROMs for that one
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