4 ms·
Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets
- altmind 8y ago>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
- mcphage 8y agoThat seems like the IP equivalent of casing the joint, and being stopped by a security guard.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoSpeaks to a culture antithetical to traditional western business ideals, no? Not to say it doesn't happen here, it's just not so brazen.
- elefanten 8y agoWho is calling it trade secrets theft? The article's headline refers to "efforts". The HN link says "targets". Your comment attacks a strawman.
- checkyoursudo 8y agoIs 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?
- doanguyen 8y agoThe 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.
- client4 8y agoSounds like Microsoft in the 90's https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_...
- client4 8y agoIs 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?
- nkingsy 8y agoLately 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.