I may be in the tech industry in the US, but this is absolutely the message I got as well.
Some of them are pretty cheap even.
I thought about buying one so that I could leave my iPhone in the hotel room some days and only carry a cheap phone when I am outside walking in some parts of the city.
We are leaving Cancún soon, so now there is not so much point in doing that anyways. But I was thinking that I could do so when we get to Panama in a few days, or the next time I come back to South America.
After your comment I am rethinking buying a ZTE phone ever. However, I didn’t hear ZTE mentioned in the video. Is ZTE somehow connected to Samsung?
The shady things are beeing chinese owned and there is a trade war? Otherwise I heard lots of accusations, but saw no proof of anything.
Lol it takes a lot more than being a Chinese owned company to get banned in the us the majority of the things that we buy is made in China. If it was that reason you wouldn't be able to buy anything in the store anymore
Otherwise the difference is in strategy. A toaster is geopolitical not so important, like communication infrastructure.
You can't beat Huawei cell towers. You increasingly can't beat Huawei phones, which have become much better and cheaper than iPhones.
You can make up some story about it being spyware (while we have a mountain of proof that the US has spyware in Western devices...) and exclude them, also hoping that it will limit their advance. Of course, the opposite has happened, CHinese tech comapines have now rapidly gained the ability to sourse in-house (or in-country) what they used to import, leading to a tech jump through sanctions.
Get out of here.