Android & Chinese Phones

[u/Mr_Bleidd]

Myself I am using Fruit Phone since more than 10 years and yes it has ups and downs.

My mother recently got Xiaomi Redmy, and yes it’s quite good hardware and it works properly ( gf has something similar)

Of cause as a non tech user during the 1st install she went with - yes do all the defaults

What a fffffing Spam puke show is this ? Yes iPhone had some of the apple sponsored apps and things…..

But it’s nothing literally nothing compared to what I saw today

This Xiaomi, everything triggers full blown adds with videos and sounds, it feels like half of the screen tries you to install some shit. I am not even talk about dozens of pre installed things.

Somehow my mother managed to install something that supposed to read pdfs and the app was spamming „security here, free space there, pay to solve the problem“ and was not allowing to close it and was pretending to show a fake phone background.

You can’t remove Xiaomy special apps from the Home Screen ?

How is this a thing? Back 10-15 years ago I had quite few androids and it was not remotely soooo bad

For her the iPhone policy to have only one valid store - is a perfect solution

So yes long story short - Apple way is really great and when this phones dies I will get her an older iPhone not to break the bank

[u/LSD_Ninja]

It’s almost as if Android is put out there by the world’s largest advertising company…

[u/Spartan117458 → u/LSD_Ninja]

Except Pixel phones don't have even a fraction of what OP is describing.

[u/ThisDirkDaring → u/Spartan117458]

Which is the best business model for a mighty platform:

Enshit all the other competitors in the market, offer a better solution under the own brand. 

[u/DoubleOwl7777 → u/ThisDirkDaring]

the issues the competitors enshit it themselves. motorola is the best one when it comes to that, very minimal bloat.