<story><title>Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021</title><url>https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-2021</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>senko</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve got a Xiaomi phone (Mi 10 Lite) and am pretty happy with it.&lt;p&gt;Hardware is great. Software (MIUI) is adware crap, which I knew when I was buying. I tweaked privacy settings as much was possible, and I use almost none of the builtin apps. Instead I use Firefox Focus+Mobile for browsing, Amaze for file management, Dropbox for file storage and PDF view, etc.&lt;p&gt;Overall the entire experience is comparable (for me) to a Samsung or Apple phone at 3x the price. The most annoying things are still Google and YouTube ToS accept dialogs I get all the time because I&amp;#x27;m effectively using an incognito browser, and I&amp;#x27;d get those on any phone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021</title><url>https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-2021</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>Xiaomi is able to make their phones so cheap by making their software as crappy as possible. They collect a lot of data (yes, their calculator app has a privacy policy) and sometimes show ads. You need a Xiaomi account to enable debugging (adb).&lt;p&gt;Though they&amp;#x27;re still immensely popular here in Russia.</text></comment>