• soronixa
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    3 years ago

    they claim it’s to prevent rebranding, so a local store or small company can’t unlock a large number of phones, install another OS on them, and then sell them as Xiaomi phones. it’s a shame they don’t do as OnePlus does.

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      3 years ago

      Interesting. Though I’m not sure why they’re so keen on preventing that, at least from a pure business perspective, since they’re still getting sales if rebranders exist. Admittedly I don’t know what the ethical or consumer side implications of this are, maybe they’re doing consumers a favour by restricting in this way, maybe not. Anyone want to weigh in?