At least with Xiaomi you have some chance of unlocking it with the app and some community support with the ROMs, but it’s a very cumbersome process (and now limited to 2000 unlocks per day for the whole world!) made to force you to desist in the process.
and more requirements preexisting before the article was written, such as the 2000 per day limit
Now, according to the Lobsters post’s link, it’s just fully disabled. Xiaomi is saying they’ll re-enable it outside of China in 2025.
This all sounds like they’re trying to soften the blow by making the disabling gradual, but I think they’re tarnishing their reputation much more like this.
At least with Xiaomi you have some chance of unlocking it with the app and some community support with the ROMs, but it’s a very cumbersome process (and now limited to 2000 unlocks per day for the whole world!) made to force you to desist in the process.
score 3 · canonical
I found the previous list of requirements, and it’s crazy:
Now, according to the Lobsters post’s link, it’s just fully disabled. Xiaomi is saying they’ll re-enable it outside of China in 2025.
This all sounds like they’re trying to soften the blow by making the disabling gradual, but I think they’re tarnishing their reputation much more like this.
score 6 · canonical