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Analysis: Why the Best Android Phones of 2018 Will Not Be Available in the U.S

3 points by cmurf 9y ago

cmurf 9y ago
Summary: Huawei has the best offering for 2018 and may even surpass Apple on units shipped by end of year, but they have no sales agreements with service providers in the U.S. And the U.S. government is anti-Huawei (specifically the intelligence agencies advise against buying Huawei). Therefore Huawei is going the path of least resistance and will focus on other markets, which is literally the entire rest of the world. I wonder how other countries either don't believe, aren't worried, or don't care, about Huawei or ZTE devices spying on their citizens? OK, so what has the FBI director actually said? "It provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information," Wray said. "And it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage." Aha so it's a potential threat, not an active one. They're worried the devices might be a Trojan horse. This is actually an old concern about these two companies, going back to 2012. This approximates a summary of a draft report produced by House Intel committee about these two companies: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/08/congressional-report-u-s-should-view-with-suspicion-two-chinese-companies/?iid=EL http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/08/congressional-repor... This is the actual draft. https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/huawei-zte%20investigative%20report%20(final).pdf https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/... Here's the problem. These House Intel committee people are bought and paid for politicians, this substantially reduces their credibility on the face of it for the identical logical argument that Huawei is distrusted: Huawei's money connection to the Chinese government makes them beholden to political will; in the same way politicians' money connection makes them beholden to the political will of where their money comes from which is not Huawei or ZTE but rather all the other tech and telecom companies making competing products. And then this is also the same committee whose chairman went on TV almost exactly a year ago, claiming he had discovered evidence the Trump administration was under surveillance by intel agencies, which he then had to walk back after it was revealed this narrative and evidence was in fact supplied by the White House. These people are caught in these kinds of gymnastics and even if they were telling the truth in 2012, and have some facts backing them up, makes it a lot harder to understand their real motives and take them seriously. And this makes the country arguably less safe from real threats, but also it's anti-competitive.

3 points by cmurf 9y ago

Summary: Huawei has the best offering for 2018 and may even surpass Apple on units shipped by end of year, but they have no sales agreements with service providers in the U.S. And the U.S. government is anti-Huawei (specifically the intelligence agencies advise against buying Huawei). Therefore Huawei is going the path of least resistance and will focus on other markets, which is literally the entire rest of the world. I wonder how other countries either don't believe, aren't worried, or don't care, about Huawei or ZTE devices spying on their citizens? OK, so what has the FBI director actually said? "It provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information," Wray said. "And it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage." Aha so it's a potential threat, not an active one. They're worried the devices might be a Trojan horse. This is actually an old concern about these two companies, going back to 2012. This approximates a summary of a draft report produced by House Intel committee about these two companies: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/08/congressional-report-u-s-should-view-with-suspicion-two-chinese-companies/?iid=EL http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/08/congressional-repor... This is the actual draft. https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/huawei-zte%20investigative%20report%20(final).pdf https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/... Here's the problem. These House Intel committee people are bought and paid for politicians, this substantially reduces their credibility on the face of it for the identical logical argument that Huawei is distrusted: Huawei's money connection to the Chinese government makes them beholden to political will; in the same way politicians' money connection makes them beholden to the political will of where their money comes from which is not Huawei or ZTE but rather all the other tech and telecom companies making competing products. And then this is also the same committee whose chairman went on TV almost exactly a year ago, claiming he had discovered evidence the Trump administration was under surveillance by intel agencies, which he then had to walk back after it was revealed this narrative and evidence was in fact supplied by the White House. These people are caught in these kinds of gymnastics and even if they were telling the truth in 2012, and have some facts backing them up, makes it a lot harder to understand their real motives and take them seriously. And this makes the country arguably less safe from real threats, but also it's anti-competitive.