from Hacker News

Xiaomi takes the smartphone sales crown

by geekfun on 8/9/21, 9:03 AM with 20 comments

• by commoner on 8/9/21, 3:25 PM

  Xiaomi gained market share by pricing its phones competitively, but cut corners by only releasing security updates quarterly (instead of monthly).

  https://www.mi.com/global/service/support/security-update-1....

  The only exception is Xiaomi's Android One "A" line, which is now discontinued.

• by herbst on 8/9/21, 10:20 AM

  WAY cheaper and still do everything you want a modern mobile phone to do.

  This could have been a race between Xiaomi and Huawai but trump decided against that.

• by proxysna on 8/9/21, 12:01 PM

  Good, cheap phones, but packed to the brim with spyware.