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> It is so ugly from UI/UX perspective, that almost everyone ends up installing a theme anyway.

Sources? Because I see no substantial difference and I deliberately bought phone with stock Android as it has just Google garbage, rather than both Google garbage and phone manufacturer garbage.



The anecdote data of everyone I know that keeps buying devices like Samsung, Huawei and Xiomi.


Xiaomi sells also devices with stock Android, the same goes likely for other mentioned companies


Do you seriously belive a xiaomi phone isn't siphoning off your data to other servers than the usual google servers?

So it's probably more accurately described as stock-appearing Android ..


They do sell such devices yeah, yet what most people buy make use of MIUI, likewise for the other vendors.




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