Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets

macrumors.com

83 points·jmsflknr··11 comments

>The Huawei engineer attended the supplier meeting with four Huawei researchers in tow. The Huawei team spent the next hour and a half pressing the supplier for details about the Apple Watch, the executive said.

the bar for trade secrets theft is pretty low these days

That seems like the IP equivalent of casing the joint, and being stopped by a security guard.

Speaks to a culture antithetical to traditional western business ideals, no?

Not to say it doesn't happen here, it's just not so brazen.

Is it common to trust third parties with your trade secrets?

I guess if the alternative is that the thing doesn't get done at all then what choice do you have. Still, is this a common thing?

Who is calling it trade secrets theft? The article's headline refers to "efforts". The HN link says "targets".

Your comment attacks a strawman.

Sounds like Microsoft in the 90's https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_...

Is it just me or does there seem to be a mainstream media narrative trying to stoke the fires of nationalism against China with Huawei being the current lightning rod?

Lately noticing 3 big agendas being pushed in a more obviously biased way than I've ever seen before:

1. Look at how evil the tech majors are.

2. Save American institutions from Trump (worst offender was the lockstep outcry about troop withdrawals).

3. Look at how evil China is.

The very same pattern happened to Spain < Netherland < France < British < USA. The government (King) in capitalist countries from the West tried to be protective and then lost investment trust.

Are your angle brackets meant to have directional or comparative meaning, or are they just delimiters?

Not sure I understand the downvotes.

Yes, they follow the chronological order.

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