> Huawei is also obviously not nothing in China. The article talks about this too when it says that Huawei can potentially be the highest selling phone brand a

> Huawei is also obviously not nothing in China. The article talks about this too when it says that Huawei can potentially be the highest selling phone brand at the end of the year. A big reason why this is possible is because China has its own ecosystem of online services and apps. Were they reliant on Meta, Amazon like (for example) India is today it would be much more tricky to pull off. Many people don't realise this but this part of the reason why the Great Firewall exists. It is a protectionist measure against foreign digital companies which allowed their own indigenous technical sector to develop. Combine this with the fact that the Communist Party has cells in every important Chinese company, it becomes much easier to coordinate a nationwide campaign to develop applications for critical services on a completely new OS. As American sanctions prevented Huawei from properly using Android as the article says, it is pretty easy to give it a national security spin and devote coordinate effort to this undertaking. In short, it is much more imaginable for a country like China to develop a new mobile OS if they wanted to. The only thing they need are skilled engineers. On the other hand I cannot fathom a mainstream alternative to iOS or Android appearing in the US and other such countries.