With the globalization of the Xiaomi company, which increasingly offers smartphone from Global branch, maybe modding operations for someone are no longer necessary, for others they are even something they have never heard of but still many contend for the title of best "geek". Xiaomi initially was very libertine on this issue but with the passage of time, and especially with the increase of the bricks to the devices, the restrictive policies on the release of the bootloader have become more and more consistent and so if until today to make the request of the unlocking the bootloader they needed 360 hours, or 15 days, well for new users this time will become almost infinite, reaching 1440 hours, or 2 months.
Android One smartphones excluded (Mi A2, Mi A2 Lite e We are A1) for which you can unlock the bootloader via commands fastboot, for all the others it is necessary to use the official Mi Unlock tool. The choice to increase the controls on the bootloader process born from the fact of wanting to fight third-party retailers who try to sell devices with modified software. Personally, I find the restrictive policies that Xiaomi is implementing towards its smartphones too exaggerated, see the anti-rollback and now the latter, which in a certain sense goes against what was declared for the recent POCOPHONE F1, device for which the company wants to support the developer and modder community.
Bad news for "geeks": Xiaomi brings 2 months to wait for unlocking the bootloader
The hope that it is only a mistake is high, even if I think it is the company's intention to bring this change to a definitive end. Xiaomi owes his fortune also to modding, in fact, the company's devices are among the most popular in the various developer forums and having an unlocked bootloader means open a world of possibilities and innovations ranging from flash recovery, ROM and much more. However some users report that the wait time does not seem to increase to 2 months if you are using an older version of the Mi Unlock software, but this will most likely last for a while longer poco as happened previously, as Xiaomi once noticed the flaw immediately remedied.
Good thing I just changed my smartphone.
If it stays that way I know that many will opt for other brands.