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Everything you touch or use has a component going through china
by fridif 5y ago
Everything you touch or use has a component going through china
- chitowneats 5y agoWe are a market for them. If you're suggesting they would stop selling us anything in response to us blocking a few of their services online, I think you're overestimating their likely response.
- oblio 5y agoI used to think the American leverage over China was not that great (I'm not American). Then Huawei was put on that Entity List (or whatever it's called) and prohibited from doing business with US companies. Huawei was the world's #2 phone producer after Samsung and rising rapidly, I think the forecast was that within 2 quarters it would be #1, overtaking Samsung. One year later, with the ban still ongoing, Huawei fell out of the top 5, its sales having shrunk 60% or more (https://www.gsmarena.com/sa_smartphone_market_surges_24_in_q1_2021_huawei_no_longer_in_top_5-news-48741.php https://www.gsmarena.com/sa_smartphone_market_surges_24_in_q...).
- fridif 5y agoI would buy a Huawei phone running a Huawei operating system that operates as wifi/data only, purely for the meme factor.