Is your Android phone still flashing? Is your iPhone still jailbroken?
Mobile phones without root and jailbreaks simply cannot be used, which was once the consensus of many hardcore players. Nowadays, in the mainstream argument in China, the words "brushing machine", root, and prison escape are nowhere to be found.
Is the brush machine dead? This is not necessarily true, many foreign mobile phone players, still maintain this hobby, mobile phones and customized systems from Chinese brands, or many people's favorite.
Popular domestic mobile phones and customized systems
On December 28, 2021, Xiaomi officially launched the MIUI 13 system with the Xiaomi 12 series flagship, which was officially pushed shortly after. After more than a year of complaining about MIUI 12, domestic users have different views on the new MIUI 13.
Overseas users have very different attitudes and are looking forward to the new MIUI 13. But compared to the domestic version, overseas users receive updates later, so what to do?
Brush!
On December 29, the first batch of MIUI 13 updates began to be pushed to domestic Xiaomi and Redmi mobile phone users. Within a few hours, the overseas brushing unit group made the Chinese version of MIUI 13 mirror into a GSI image, released it to the group, attracting dozens of foreign netizens to follow up the response and brush the machine to taste the early. In the days that followed, miui 13 images from other Xiaomi phones were emerging.
Every time a new MIUI 13 transformation brushing package is released, it will attract a large number of netizens to participate.
GSI, fully known as Universal System Mirror, can be regarded as a generic flash package that can be swiped into any phone that supports Project Treble. As long as this prerequisite is met, there is basically no brand model in the GSI world.
Because of the high degree of versatility, the GSI brush package lacks corresponding optimizations, and there are usually more bugs, which are only suitable for early adopters or tests. Not afraid of bugs but also brush, which shows the enthusiasm of foreign netizens. It is worth mentioning that when the international version of MIUI 13 was launched, overseas users voted unanimously: Just this? Far worse than the Chinese version of MIUI 13!
Among these netizens who love to "engage in machines", Xiaomi, OnePlus, realme, these chinese brands, as well as Samsung mobile phones are the most popular. Xiaomi's MIUI and OnePlus' oxygen OS are also the two most popular custom systems.
When it comes to flashing, the native style system is certainly indispensable. One of the most famous is LineageOS, which used to be CM, which is the representative of the native and streamlined factions of today. There's also pixel-style Pixel Experience, crDroid based on native, enhanced customizable properties, Havoc OS, and more. Popular domestic models sold overseas can often be adapted.
Why do brush players love to use domestic mobile phones
Why do foreign netizens love to use Chinese brand mobile phones and customized systems? This is inseparable from the performance of Chinese brands in overseas markets.
XDA Developers is one of the most well-known mobile phone enthusiast forums in the world, gathering developers and playing machine users from all over the world, just like an older machine front forum, the country with the largest traffic is India (19.2%), China (15%), the United States (11.1%), indicating that China and the United States and India are real "playing machine powers".
India's smartphone landscape is the most unique of these, with the overall market still on the rise, unlike the weakly competitive United States or China, which is heavily involved. Even due to the pandemic, Indian smartphone shipments rose 11 percent in 2021, with revenue up 27 percent to a record high (Counterpoint Research data). Of course, there is a reason why the Indian smartphone market "can be expected in the future", and there is still a considerable share of feature machines here that need to be "eliminated".
Smartphones are in the rapid expansion of the popular stage, brands have entered the competition, is there a taste of the Chinese mobile phone market a few years ago? That was also the most prosperous period of brushing machines in China.
In the Indian market, Chinese-branded smartphones are favored, with four Chinese brands among the top five brands in 2021, namely Xiaomi (including sub-brands POCO), vivo, realme and OPPO. The big sale of Chinese mobile phones, not only because it is easy to use and affordable, but also high-end, high-end models have also been affirmed, xiaomi, one plus is the brightest name in the market segment.
The Southeast Asian market also has a similar pattern, with Chinese brands occupying four of the top five smartphone brands in the market.
First of all, for brushing enthusiasts, the price of mobile phones are more potential for the divine machine, easy to sell, more people to use, developers are more willing to adapt.
Secondly, Chinese manufacturers are more open to unlocking Bootloader and brushing machines, and the more prominent ones are Xiaomi, realme, and OnePlus. There are many unlocking tutorials on domestic mobile phones on the international network, which are easy to understand and simple to operate.
Finally, in terms of system experience, the overseas version of the Chinese manufacturer's system has a good reputation. On the basis of fitting the habits of overseas users, they cleverly combine the functional design with many Chinese characteristics, which is just right.
Why don't we brush machines anymore
It is true that the brush machine is not extinct, but whether at home or abroad, the prosperous era of brush machine is gone. The limitations of bootloader unlocking by mobile phone manufacturers are getting deeper and deeper, and root and flashing machines have become more and more difficult.
In addition, vendors, service providers and consumers are paying more and more attention to software security, and many software no longer supports the use of rooted mobile phones. So that the brushing machine and daily mobile phone use are gradually separated.
From the good side, the major mobile phones are also paying more and more attention to software services, customized OS, UI is no longer just imitation and skin change, but add more convenient functions and optimization. Perfect functionality and a good experience, which is fundamental to retaining users.
We must also see that today's Android iOS system is still deficient in some functional experiences, which requires stronger supervision and in-depth regulation. Fortunately, Android is open, which is the foundation of the existence of the brushing machine, and it is precisely because of all kinds of imperfections that all users who chase the ideal experience continue to let go.
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