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One Million Dollars in Huawei Mobile Services App Innovation Contest

25 points by pella 6y ago

atlasunshrugged 6y ago
I'm a little surprised they're excluding all developers from the US/Canada - I would have figured they'd still try to build up alternative economic connections in those places so they have more firepower/support from the local business communities to fight against future bans and actions from the US and Canadian governments.
- yorwba 6y ago
  How would they legally pay out the prize money in countries where Huawei is sanctioned?
  - suyash 6y ago
    good point, probably why, also it's a spyware so I'll pass anyways.
  - HappySweeney 6y ago
    Canada has not officially banned or sanctioned Huawei.
yorwba 6y ago
It's interesting that even the Chinese contest region has prizes denominated in US dollars: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/activity/detail/007?previewUrl=digixhmsChina https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/activity/detail/007...
tyingq 6y ago
"Developers who register for the contest will get a $200 voucher for Huawei Cloud, and a $4,000 voucher after app submissions." That's pretty impressive.
claudiulodro 6y ago
I think this is a solid way to incentivize people to develop for a new platform (it's an app store as far as I can understand?) A $5k cash award for most popular app seems token when the most popular apps on competing platforms make literally billions of dollars, though.
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canada_dry 6y ago
The T&C's are interesting [i]. I wonder why Canada and USA are even listed under "Governing Law and Jurisdiction" since they're not invited to the party? Finally, I find it quite ironic that Huawei - who stole a great deal of tech from Canada's Nortel [ii] - will disqualify entrants if: You plagiarize the work of others. [i] https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/devservice/hmsterm https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/devservice/hmsterm [ii] https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-down-nortel-corporate-espionage-theft-and-the-parallel-rise-and-fall-of-two-telecom-giants https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-dow...

25 points by pella 6y ago

I'm a little surprised they're excluding all developers from the US/Canada - I would have figured they'd still try to build up alternative economic connections in those places so they have more firepower/support from the local business communities to fight against future bans and actions from the US and Canadian governments.

yorwba 6y ago
How would they legally pay out the prize money in countries where Huawei is sanctioned?
- suyash 6y ago
  good point, probably why, also it's a spyware so I'll pass anyways.
- HappySweeney 6y ago
  Canada has not officially banned or sanctioned Huawei.

yorwba 6y ago

It's interesting that even the Chinese contest region has prizes denominated in US dollars: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/activity/detail/007?previewUrl=digixhmsChina https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/activity/detail/007...

tyingq 6y ago

"Developers who register for the contest will get a $200 voucher for Huawei Cloud, and a $4,000 voucher after app submissions." That's pretty impressive.

claudiulodro 6y ago

I think this is a solid way to incentivize people to develop for a new platform (it's an app store as far as I can understand?) A $5k cash award for most popular app seems token when the most popular apps on competing platforms make literally billions of dollars, though.

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canada_dry 6y ago

The T&C's are interesting [i]. I wonder why Canada and USA are even listed under "Governing Law and Jurisdiction" since they're not invited to the party? Finally, I find it quite ironic that Huawei - who stole a great deal of tech from Canada's Nortel [ii] - will disqualify entrants if: You plagiarize the work of others. [i] https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/devservice/hmsterm https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/devservice/hmsterm [ii] https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-down-nortel-corporate-espionage-theft-and-the-parallel-rise-and-fall-of-two-telecom-giants https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-dow...