Huawei rises from the dead, outsells iPhone in China
Huawei rises from the dead, outsells iPhone in China
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Huawei rises from the dead, outsells iPhone in China
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Four facts to consider:
- Huawei had no problems at all selling their phones in China. They were already 100% google-less before the ban, and after the ban it was the "patriot choice" to get their phones
- iPhones are banned for people who are working for the Chinese government; there's a fear campaign that says that the American government can hack them
- The Chinese iPhone app store is now a restricted list of carefully whitelisted apps from the Chinese government, and in order to be whitelisted the app must be published by a developer that has a presence in China with a specific content license. So now the iPhone is a dumb phone that can run tencent/Alibaba/bytedance/pinduoduo apps. If you're thinking of an iPhone app, it's probably unavailable in China. At least with android you can sideload whatever you want (and often in the rom there's a shim that allows to unofficially install the Google play store and services), but with the iPhone all you can get is those few apps.
- You can get similar build quality for a quarter or a third of the price. There are no carrier discounts, you need to pay the full price, which in cities that are not Shanghai are several months of salary. And if you need to show that you're worth, it's much better to take a foldable. I saw many women with a zflip worn like a necklace or a zfold worn like a bag
Seen those four reasons, there's no surprises iphone isn't the "default" option like in the US
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Huawei had no problems at all selling their phones in China. They were already 100% google-less before the ban
Wat? Weren't they running Android with Google Services?
iPhones are banned for people who are working for the Chinese government; there’s a fear campaign that says that the American government can hack them
After Snowden, nobody can seriously sit there and believe the USA doesn't have access.
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That implies it was dead at some point. It never was.
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Anglo corporate media not declaring the collapse of China challenge (impossible)
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China will collapse and Japan will be the worlds largest economy.
Although finally maybe potentially China will decline within the next few decades simply due to population reduction.
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When did it die?
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It didn't and they make good phones, but without access official access to Google play, you loose a lot of things ,especially with more casual users that don't want to sideload. Also, some apps won't work without the play integrity api, for example banking apps, making it harder to gain traction outside China.
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I have an Huawei phone and it's honestly the best phone I've ever had
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I'm a big fan of Huawei products. Incredible build quality and reasonable prices. I personally don't care if the CCP spies on me so it's not a big issue for me.
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Americans are already spying on you through Google and Apple.
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Me too. The D15 is great laptop and runs Linux really well. Fantastic build quality, hardware, and battery life... for USD 700$.
Besides, I get lonely if only the Americans are listening.
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Xiaomi >>>>>>>>>> Huawei
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I don't think the sanctions affected Huawei's sells in China that much. Probably they even improved after they introduced HarmonyOS. I guess that "Huawei was dead" was just some good old American propaganda
It's dead everywhere else because they can't use Google Play Services.
Anyway, I don't think the goal of US actions is ever to stop or kill anything completely. After all there's money to be made in the "problem" coming back again and again.
I think this is an important point people who mock the US don't get.
They've switched their brand to Honor everywhere else and it's business as usual.
Huawei is still very popular here in Turkey.