Unfortunately, xiaomi's business model is to sell hardwares with little to none profit margin and make profit as a internet company, I.e. advertising and so on. I give them the benefit of doubt that 90 days renewal was added and didn't work due to not unit tested maybe. Still, it is the same ad business as fb. I love the look of their phones, but I would pay for an iPhone for the benefit of secure os and better privacy
They give away low cost hardware because it's a military branch of the government whose purpose is establishing a global surveillance network. Being profitable is a nice to have but not a primary purpose as they get subsidized by the state regardless.
Okay. So Chinese government keeps pumping money into Huawei, Xiaomi, Tencent, Alibaba, Tiktok and many other businesses so that they can ..... make money? You have to ask an economist for how this works, I am not intelligent enough to figure it out.
