Gone are the days when oneplus used to be consumer friendly company. The parent company CEO is taking advice from some wannabe Elon musk. All these people who say they understand business but have no understanding of technical knowhow shouldn’t be allowed to become business leaders but the world we live in is becoming a shithole because the bootlickers are being given these top roles.
OnePlus was never a consumer friendly company. People only liked it because their phones were cheaper than the standard market prices, however, most people understood that this price comes with the caveat that their device is designed, manufactured, and controlled by a Chinese company. Everybody knew that the CCP had their tentacles in these devices, and so it was only a matter of time before things like this start happening.
I would happily give my data to CCP than American companies.
I spend my money on products which are European and Asian. I completely avoid American products and services like a plague.🤢🤢🤮
Now who’s good bootlicker? Yes, you are! Want to bend over and give me paw?
While you keep deepthroating the boot of an evil regime, I, on the other hand, refuse to give my data to any government or corporation and I do my damnest to make sure my data stays secure.
Lol do you even know what bootlicking means ? Its my choice to buy and use Europeans and Asian products.
But I like your narrative how you’re trying to make American good. Chinese bad.
Fuck off !! CIA , ICE cunts.
I don’t know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.
FYI: this is CHINA ONLY that they did this. With China being a totalitarianism shithole this was to be expected
Miss my Oneplus 7 Pro. popup cameras <3
I bought my secondhand OnePlus 6T only last year. Installed Linux on it, and I love it. I’m using it as my daily driver.
Sent from my OnePlus 6T and from my bed
I also own a 6T as my main phone, but it seems LineageOS support had ended :(
I’ve still kept my 7T pro. Peak Oneplus 🪦
OnePlus is a Chinese company. Anybody who trusted a Chinese company to respect privacy, consumer rights, and ownership freedom is a complete idiot.
At the end of the day the makers of smartphones determine if you can mod their products to their liking or not, and in most cases they really hate it because they want to continue selling phones and make them more difficult to fix without special tools.
How I was then doing fine with a feature phone allowing me to play music and take pictures. That was in 2009.
so does that mean we’re done with OnePlus?
Havent we for a while?
I personally never trusted Chinese phone no matter how good they were.
Ironically, the best phones for security and privacy are Google’s Pixel phones because they’re the only ones that GrapheneOS supports
Wasn’t OnePlus like worshipped because of how much support for custom ROMs wth
The original “One” phone was even supposed to run cyanogemod out of the box at one point.
It was shipped with Cyanogenmod for a while.
If true, this is sabotage of the customers product, and must 100% be illegal in almost any country!!
But my guess is they are limiting this to countries that have absolute shit consumer protection.“…long enough to become the villain.”
That means they were making money by people running their os.
If they spend the money on re-engineering their devices not to allow it, there was a cost advantage to selling your data.
Holy shit. I wanted to say something constructive, but just…. holy shit. Intentional hard brick of a customer owned device….
Many users were buying OpenPlus Pro smartphones solely because of the ability to unlock the bootloader and flash custom ROMs. People value freedom and customization. OpenPlus is shooting itself in the foot.
An increasingly small amount of their userbase cares about that now, its a mainstream device now
This is why I bought a pixel 6
This will never stop being funny
I also went with a pixel 6a with grafeneos because there are no other good options for me.
I would have preferred fairphone 6 + calyx but that is on hiatus and I couldn’t wait longer.
Seriously are there any Android brands that do not suck and ship everywhere (not limited to the US/EU markets)??
google pixel with grapheneos maybe
pixel 10 is pretty repairable hardware wise, some prior ones have glued in battery
One plus joined my short list of “I can’t be bothered” companies like Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo and some other sub par companies.
OnePlus is owned by Oppo, so that’s applied for a while. Now they’re just making it clearly known
And all that while OnePlus was awesome up until the OnePlus 7 pro.
I had the 5t until last year and it was still awesome.
