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Look how well Huawei smartphones are selling in the west (not well at all). And that's not because of lack of trying, I've been on a team where everybody agreed
by usrusr 3y ago
Look how well Huawei smartphones are selling in the west (not well at all). And that's not because of lack of trying, I've been on a team where everybody agreed that supporting their phones had zero upside outside of the cash Huawei offered for a port of our apps. And we did it, only because they paid so much. And those were laughably unattractive apps (think yellow pages), I can't even start to imagine what they must have spent in other directions.
- Andrex 3y agoHuawei was selling well in the west until the US Gov't blocked them. https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/25/ren-zhengfei-has-big-plans-for-huawei-in-spite-of-american-sanctions https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/25/ren-zhengfei-h...
- somsak2 3y agohttps://archive.is/YGPFT https://archive.is/YGPFT
- wlesieutre 3y agoBecause they used to have Google's play store and other services. Parent commenter's point is that a manufacturer having the open source parts of Android isn't necessarily worth much on its own.