This attempt by the US to express power economically over... what is China at this point? A cheap and under-regulated labor pool for US consumers? Regardless, this attempt will continue to weaken the economic and diplomatic utilities that the US has available, at least when it is led by nationalistic political leaders.
MS could have had a chance, but they didn't have the vision and Android was the better choice (until now) to most manufacturers
Microsoft’s Windows Phone would have been no better, quite the contrary, at least you can fork Android, at least it supports alternative app stores.
The trade war is not why this company, in particular, is blacklisted.
To see no relation to the trade war is, however, a tad naive.
In practice, it's clearly a trade war thing and I'd be willing to bet quite a bit that there was a personal thing between Huawei's loudmouth CEO and our vindictive president.
Only in the last couple years have people gotten upset and started calling them cheaters or whatever, retroactively.
It raises some questions. Are we blaming them for our inability to socialize our gains from trade? Were we expecting them to never learn and move up the value chain?
Sure, most people have a bias or a slant, and it often comes out in what we write, but do you honestly think anyone who sees you are a brand new account and sees your comments here will think anything other than 'insert_country_here apologist'? And that it happens on every story critical of china? Seriously it gets old.
It's not cool to accuse people of being Chinese shills, especially people with semi-obscure Greek names that they're very much in character of.
Now, almost two decades later, after Huawei has spent billions in R&D and appears to be the market leader in 5G, all these old claims resurface, and the US government is quite openly trying to drive them out of business. Of course, by sheer coincidence, this happens while Trump is waging a trade war against China.
And for the record, Diogenes couldn't be a shill for anyone. Diogenes is happy living in his barrel in the market, do he clearly isn't motivated by money.
I googled that Cisco case as well. One of their big claims was a copypasted impl of... strcmp.
Um, from the interviews I’ve been reading Ren has been nothing but gracious and well spoken.
He thanks all the US companies that have helped him and urges his compatriots to not “retaliate” because the US companies need to follow US laws.
I'm just noticing that Huawei is conspicuously singled out, and Trump is the kind of guy to do that over some petty personal slight.
Which companies? Why would Samsung and other non-China based smartphone makers feel the need to do this?
Also switching away from Android because of the risk of being blacklisted by the US is akin to rebuilding the foundation of your house when it's built on mud. If you get blacklisted by the US losing access to android seems to be the least of your problems.