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Xiaomi please use Stock Android

It's about time to abandon MIUI


Slow and laggy


When i first used MIUI v3 in my nexus s back in 2012 it was nothing short of a revolution. MIUI was really better than stock android. MIUI started as a fork of cm but it changed the way android looked. It transformed android into something elegant and beautiful. MIUI V4 and V5 was again extra ordinary.  I think it was from MIUI 6 onwards that miui started lagging. Nowadays miui is a really laggy operating system when compared to stock android. I compared my MI4I with snapdragon 615 chipset to another device with the same specification moto g turbo...and moto g turbo was considerably faster. Even an old snapdragon 410 moto g3 was faster than mi4i..The point is stock android is much faster than miui on similiar hardware. Even my snapdragon 650 kenzo (Redmi note3) is slower than an old Snapdragon 617 Moto g4 plus.

Lack of android updates


Xiaomi has been a  failure at giving timely android updates. My mi4i and Redmi note 3 are still running an almost 1.5 year old lolipop. There even mi devices on kitkat even now. This is also due to miui. Since miui is such a heavy skin its impossible to keep it tested for bugs and update devices timely like google or motorolla.

Ads


Xiaomi have ads in MIUI..ads in an Operating system!!! never heard that before.

Xiaomi Bloatware


In addition to google bloatware xiaomi devices have a lot of xiaomi bloatware too...when comparing the most popular oem skins htc sense, samsung touchwiz and miui ; miui is the one with most bloatware. Even samsung has realised that bloatware slows phones down and kept newer versions of touchwiz significantly bloatfree.

Examples for Xiaomi bloatware: MI account, Mi compass, Mi notes, Mi scanner, Mi store, MI cloud, Mi security, Xiaomi assistant etc.

There is no excuse for adding bloatware when they can just put these mi apps in google play like asus and let users willingly downlaod it. Don't force your apps on us Xiaomi.with every new miui version xiaomi is adding even more bloatware.

Solutions to the Problem


Although miui is fully bloated miui has some good features like volume button unlock, Read mode etc. So it would be better if mi uses a stock rom like os and just add these features and may be just add some xiaomi apps if u so desires. Mi can do a feature test like HTC did. Mi app for a particular function will be compared to corresponding google app. The more functional one will be kept and other will be eliminated.

from 2012 onwards on all my android devices(Nexus S, Galaxy s3, Mi4i,Redmi note 3) i have been using MIUI. It was a wonder in the smartphone world. When android was struggling MIUI showed the light. But now android has grown up and MIUi is nothing but a laggy legend with a great past.

Dear Xiaomi,

i know MIUI is what made xiaomi..It is the signature of Xiaomi. But in India we say "even if its a golden tree, if it damages the house, its time to cut it down".

Please Avoid MIUI..or atleast give us an option to remove inbuilt apps like apple did in IOS 10. We don't want to run lolipop when Android O comes.
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