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Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record (engadget.com)
Huawei's 2018 was tumultuous, to put it mildly, but the company has at least a few reasons to brag. The Chinese mobile giant has revealed that it shipped over 200 million smartphones in the year, setting a new record. Last year, Huawei moved 153 million smartphones units. From a report: The Chinese phone maker said the numbers were largely driven by the success of products like its P20, Honor 10 and Mate 20 series. Huawei's smartphone shipments have grown from 3 million units in 2010, it added. Last year, it said it sold 153 million units. The company overtook Apple in the second quarter of 2018 to become the world's second largest phone vendor, according to researcher Canalys. "In the global smartphone market, Huawei has gone from being dismissed as a statistical 'other' to ranking among the Top 3 players in the world," Huawei said in its statement.
that's 200 million new listening posts in a single year, spread out across much of the world.
yes, this company is part of the chinese government spying juggernaut and citizen suppression machine. don't believe it? DYOFG doyourownfuckinggoogling
Years back many made comment on US companies in their short sighted greed, using outsourcing to inflate profits and break the backs of US unions, would create the competition that would end up destroying them. Ahh, the inevitable reward of greed, failure and collapse. What a pack of greedy American corporate morons, you reaped what you sowed, well done fuckers and a merry Xmas to you.
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With the rest of the world trying to boycott or punish Huawei, China is really encouraging Chinese to buy Huawei. I see it on all Chinese news outlets these days. It's almost an insult to not have one. People are dumping their other phones in droves and switching to Huawei in the mainland. The arrest in Canada really caused this.
Reasons (most of which you already know):
1. Huawei is a tool of the Chinese government. At any time, the government can ask for (demand) information from ANY Huawei phone ANYWHERE and Huawei is obliged, by law, to produce it.
2. Huawei's Meng Wanzhou has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to defraud international institutions.
3. A Huawei Technologies Co. engineer went to T-Mobile US Inc.'s laboratory in Bellevue, Washington to see "Tappy" - a tireless, computer-driven robot that taps on touch screens, simulating weeks of use in a day. The Huawei engineer was curious about Tappy’s fingertips. So he slipped one into a laptop bag and left with it, in an act T-Mobile branded theft.
4. The ruling Chinese Communist Party maintains a committee within Huawei. The company has failed to explain its relation to the government. Huawei has said the government plays no role in its business decisions or staffing.
5. In Europe, carriers and major customers from Orange SA to BT Group Plc and Deutsche Telekom AG have voiced their concerns about Huawei’s [5G] gear, on top of existing bans in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
The reasons are mounting. Huawei is a bad corporate citizen. Do not buy any of their products.
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The US and Europe are brainwashed to reject brands outside their comfort zone of Apple, Samsung, Google as examples. But the rest of the world judges less on brand and more on value. Maybe that is the result of more having less income to spend so they are wiser about products. Having a fruit on a product doesn't impress them as much.
Plus that âoefruitâ has a different OS and is generally more secure...
How can you assert this? Did you read the source code? (Either yourself, or - if you don't feel competent enoug - had independent experts review it ?)
Currently, the fruit's reputation is entirely based on speculations and deductions and current absence/lower amount of publicly reported security issue.
Guesses can be wrong, reports might be silenced.
Google isn't better yet:
Yes, the base android system itself is actually open-source (see AOSP), but most of the juicy bits live in the "optional" Google Play Services ("optional" meaning that it's required by a horrifyingly large proportion of popular apps, so even if your smartphone can boot android without it, tons of applications will refuse to start) and that service is closed source and heavily controlled and licensed under stringent terms by Google.
You can inspect AOSP's source all you want, that won't prevent Google from raping your privacy as much they want from the closed services.
Though, at least, there are efforts to re-write an open-source alternative to these services.
Currently there aren't that many good alternatives either:
At least Jolla (ex engineers of the Nokia Maemo/Meego team) have written Sailfish, whose base (mer project) is opensource and the interface is mostly written in QML, so even it some bits aren't technically "opensource" from the licensing point of view, at least it passes the "source code readable" part.
(They promised to eventually re-lisence and opensource those bits, but they aren't there yet).
Also, currently no *open-source* Android compatibility layer (and that one is NOT going to get relicensed), so it makes a very small limited choice of available apps.
Also worth mentionning is Purism who are working on their Librem 5 smartphone, supposedly 100% completely opensource (even open source drivers, no blobs) and a hardware switch controlling a separate cell modem (no modem-functions-as-northbridge craziness as in most Qualcomm chipsets).
But, well, we aren't there yet (still delays in getting the target FressScale iMX8 chipset working), and of course most of mainstream will complain that the chip is very outdated and under powered compared to other phone.
They might work some opensource AndBox-based compatibility layer, so together with AOSP (and optionnally microG) there might be possibilities to get some opensource auditable stack working there.
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Cremier, is that you!?!?
I can tell you they were quite good hardware. It lasted me up until just a year or two ago, despite abuse which would have destroyed any other newer or bigger phone.
I still have it, but thanks to bloat in Android it can no longer fit any newer OS on it, nevermind the apps, without using an SD card to run the OS off of.
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Lol, that's adorable.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
What I'm curious about here is whether those of you who are critical of Huawei get a sense that the Chinese state is influencing the modding our comments here on Slashdot and modding the critical comments down. I note that almost all comments about my post are by Anonymous Coward.
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