Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent
Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent
The Chinese domestic market doesn't care about sanctions
Good for them. I still don't want their equipment in our telecom networks but that's not a concern for their domestic usage. If anything, it's probably better for China to use Chinese equipment. Less Chinese money going out of reach into foreign billionaire pockets.
I don't think any wrong doing on their part was ever proven, with countries like Germany state intelligence doing their investigation and finding nothing
It was fear marketing, aka using fear mongering to buy shares for dying western Telecom companies. Seriously, a lot of 5G and 6G patents are made by Chinese people, what chances did slow glaciers like Ericsson have if the USA didn't jump on their old red scare asian peril dick?
Years ago I saw independent analysis of Huawei gear. It was a shit show of vulnerabilities. That on its own was enough for me to conclude that I don't want any of this gear in critical data paths. Having exploitable vulnerabilities is a tactic the NSA has used to enter equipment. Whether Huawei was simply incompetent or they left security holes open on purpose doesn't really matter to me. I'd prefer not to have 'em. Also I'd prefer to have equipment from companies I can take over if needed. 🥹
I don't like the great divide. We get almost no Chinese culture, and it just feels like both nation states are trying to cultivate a West V East narrative for ideological control purposes...
Unless both peoples buy wholeheartedly into nations without borders, this ain't happening. Unfortunately this could only happen sustainably if it happens on the basis of the working classes realizing their commonality and closeness. If it happens on the basis of free trade, the capitalist class will exploit the arbitrage opportunities between the two countries' working classes while turning those classes against each other, so they don't notice they're being co-exploited.
Is it east vs west, or man against man?
Can any nation stand alone?
The wonders of banning iPhones
No it's not that. Huawei has a very good name in China and new models sell out in minutes.
Thanks to the US ban Huawei hands had to put a lot of work into making their own OS, ecosystem and CPU chips.
And they've managed to pull it off. They have some very clever people working there.
HarmonyOS
Or as I like to call it, "it's not Android bro I swear to God bro legit domestic OS broooo"
You do realise that Huawei is a huge company and their smartphone business is a small part of it, right?
Huawei is the iPhone of China
The same level of garbage as iPhones too, nowadays they have a fully locked ecosystem that's practically hostile to FOSS and they don't seem to care much for GPL
Hell, Huawei was shitty before they got sanctioned, after that they are given free reign