Chinese brands always pull this stuff

28304283409234 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft does similar and worse on Windows. This is capitalism being capitalism. Nothing chinese about it.

userbinator 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Around 10-15 years ago you could get a completely stock Android from China with basically zero branding, fully unlocked and easily rootable, removable battery, expandable storage, dual DIMs, etc. at a great price. I have a few. Unfortunately many of those small honest OEMs appear to have disappeared, and the bigger ones left have turned scummy.

	▲	greatgib 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Especially Xiaomi did a huge ugly U-turn like this. Use to be the best hardware for low price with the selling point of no-crap fully customable phones. And then, once they become dominant enough starting to play it like the others but stuffing as many unremovable crap as possible.