I’m using data from StatCounter, as mentioned in the figure. See Belarus and Russia. They could be wrong; their figures are based on website hits.

Fixed. Thanks!

LibreOffice + me trying to fix things and making it worse + svg to png conversion

You overestimate my artistic abilities. I took the default colour palette LibreOffice gave, and replaced a few with ones that clash less.

Look at the bar chart below. Apple has almost a two-third marketshare in Japan, but only about 20% in China. But China has a variety of Android manufacturers, so that Apple is the single biggest vendor.

Sorry, but I couldn’t find 12 distinct colours that all lie on the blue - yellow spectrum.

In addition to what philpo said, they also provide good language support for many African languages, something no other vendor does.

Poco phones are based on Redmis. They do change some things, even hardware. So nothing is stopping them from changing their unlocking policy.

The Redmi brand is aimed at a mainstream audience, and there are probably enough people who will try to unlock bootloader without thinking through that Xiaomi wants to put some deterrance. Although I feel the Poco brand should allow easier unlockong, since it is aimed more at power users.

This is a program dedicated to influencers, not reviewers.

Corrected. Thanks!

There are YouTube channels/instagrammers that exclusively review sponsored products.

I don’t use instagram, and stick to the more reliable youtube channels. Didn’t know this was a thing.

If Google believes that the outlet is legit, they give the review device for free without the sponsorship contract. When they talk good about the device they need to flag the post with #giftfromgoogle and #teampixel

This feels like one of those stories where one person misleads another without technically lying.

Normies buy Redmi Note Pro Max + (or iPhone if they’re rich). Pixel is for devs and photos.

The first problem is that Google is giving an incentive to influencers - who are supposed to be (more or less) impartia - to review their phone favourably compared to alternatives.

The second problem is that, despite being one of the biggest companies in the world, they did this in the most obvious way possible. Now who will trust any positive review of their phone? Anyone with common sense, let alone the lawyers whom I suppose cleared this - should have told them not to do something so dumb.

Edit: corrected reviewers to influencers, for the reasons explained below.

This was just incredibly dumb. Now any positive news about their new phone is going to be seen as planted.

Mint has three prebuilt options, Cinnamon is just the default. Beyond that you can also install other desktops.

Any distro that can run Chromium / Chrome. And everything other than Teams will work even on Firefox.

Mint works. Most alternatives don’t. I can install Mint on a total newbie’s system, and not have to worry about something breaking two weeks later. Hell, most newbies can install Mint if you give them the USB.

On a deeper level, I think Mint devs are one of the few teams that understand the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ philosophy.

Yep. But even a closed-source CPU is good if it makes the architecture more mainstream.

Iirc, removeable batteries make phones harder to break. If you drop them, the back cover and battery come off, reducing the shock on the display.

I’m not from the UK, but shouldn’t a photo ID card issued by a government agency count as proof of identity?

Yes, because tomorrow you may face the same bug.