i can easily get another sim card to get around the limit as an end user. this only affects people who want to buy devices en masse and would have to get a sim

i can easily get another sim card to get around the limit as an end user. this only affects people who want to buy devices en masse and would have to get a sim card each. and even that is not that hard if you compare the cost of a sim to the cost of a phone. the annoying thing about xiaomi unlocking is the random wait time. when my mother visited a few years ago, i got her her first smartphone that i wanted to install /e/OS on. i remembered my own wait time was a week, so i figured i'd have enough time while my mom was here. when i started the unock process i realized that the wait time was randomized and this time i got two weeks. luckily that still left me one day before my mother had to leave so i managed, but if the wait time would have been just a few days more i would have been unable to set up the phone for her.