I know anti China rhetoric is all the rage, but you only need to look closer to home to see everyone does it.
Xiaomi at least still allow bootloader unlocks for phones and other devices whereas others including western companies do not.
Xiaomi at least still allow bootloader unlocks for phones and other devices whereas others including western companies do not.
Feel free to name and shame if you have actual examples.
No doubt it does happen everywhere at some scale, but it seems to happen everywhere at every scale with Chinese companies.
Broadcom are actually one of the most well known assholes for this, well before all these Chinese companies appeared.
Also in the Xiaomi case it's not strictly on purpose as they do release sources, they just don't want to or can't allocate resources to doing something that generates no revenue whereas broadcom for example have stated they are just refusing because they don't want to and nobody can make them (which thus far is true, they've won cases before under the guise of it disclosing IP) - now they can just claim the Chinese will steal their IP and disadvantage America so nobody will do a thing.
And some models do have sources available, just buy the ones that do.
At least it's not something economically important like an all American made tractor though!