Why would I want an alternative App Store lol

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What other country is there? I dont really want Korean

I love oneplus, the only brand I would buy in US.

So you are buying phones direct from Chinese vendors and you dont live in China...

Why not buy phones from another country (not China or US) then?

You do you

I would buy them at a drop of a hat, unfortunately they are too scared to come to US market especially after what was done to Huawei.

I phones? The walled garden platform that won't let you have firefox or alternative app store?

But frequencies support?

I will keep buying Chinese models and I dont care. Us gov can hurt me way more then chinese and then both collect my data.

They're very popular in asia, especially in SEA due to how cheap they can be compared to samsung or apple.

During the "3G" launch in the US, my parents used a non-internet plan on their phone. They stayed on the system grandfathered for a looong time.

Bought a cheap Chinese Android phone some time later, found out they had a 4000$ phone bill because for some reason the phone was sending some data somewhere to China.

Ended up reporting it to FBI, but I doubt anything came of it.

For the love of all that is good in the world, unclinch your sphincter.

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https://www.theregister.com/2014/06/11/damn_you_iel_regi_call_me_a_boffin_demands_enraged_boffin/

I hope your comment was sarcastic, otherwise you have no idea what you're talking about and are just spewing nonsense.

Also boffin was used 3 times lol

Which is so weird because Google (who own Android OS) is orders of magnitude worse when it comes to gathering data. I think they even beat Facebook when it comes to selling it. Apple by comparison makes most of its money from the products and services it sells, not data.

I hope you are able to realize that there is a huge difference between Western and Chinese intelligence agencies or rather the countries they work for. So China or the NSA gathering information about private citizens is not the same.

This is Reddit, you aren’t allowed to like iPhones or Apple in general lol

Only Chinese buy these phones right? Not like they have many options. Sucks though.

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I suspect many content farm articles are written by AI

Yeah, more so when you’re from some countries.

I agree it’s not perfect, but Apple and the other phone companies have been fixing those exploits since they’ve known about them. It’s not the same as the CPC government-mandated malware that exists on top of the typical data gathering that every phone company does worldwide. These are all soul-less corporations and nation-states in the end, but the US’s brand of liberalism means the CIA has to go through shady methods to hack these phones, unlike the CPC which just plants a member of the party into the board of directors and straight up threatens them to install spyware.

Probably not. But I'd say the risk of becoming a political pawn is more likely

You haven't been to wikileaks i guess

iPhones are actually pretty decent to protect your own data. They offer a lot of encryption through the settings and they give you constant notifications about apps that are tracking you. Plus they have good security too. I remember when cops in the US had expensive cracking technology to access people’s phones when they were detained, and Apple made the phone’s storage totally inaccessible to combat that specific method of entry. I’m not a big phone nerd but I think they’re better than most competitors when it comes to protecting your own data.

In China, Apple does give the CPC access to their iCloud data, which sucks. Though that’s more evidence that we shouldn’t be traveling so often to China.

I wouldn't buy anything other than Xiaomi for now. I've owned; HTC (HTC Sensation, HTC One M8 and HTC U20) OnePlus (OnePlus 4, OnePlus 7) Apple (iPhone 3G, iPhone 4) Samsung (Galaxy 5) Blackberry (Passport and Priv). All of my phones were great at the time, but also they're getting more and more expensive every year, the technology has unreservedly stagnated, and only Xiaomi offers a decent price with great specs. That's why I bought the Poco X4 GT and I haven't regretted it at all. At only $300 I get the same performance from a $1,200 phone, the same design and looks, and if the price to pay is give my info to some the PRC, then so be it, as long as I get phones for $300 with 67w, this chipset, this camera and design, I will always go for that.