There is a big scandal between the Americans and the Chinese, including on the technology corridor, and we have to give some explanations today, because it affects us.
The apple of contention is Huawei, the Chinese company that fights on a par with Samsung and Apple in the mobile phone market.
There are two things to keep in mind: when we started, we, iLikeit, Huawei ... didn't make phones. Two, the Chinese have turned their backs on 2G and 3G networks around the world. They came up with some super products at much better prices than the competition.
The Americans were a little scared of the size of the Chinese government-owned company, which is not at all transparent, at least from their perspective. So I've been keeping them for about 15 years.
The first serious scandal came after Huawei wanted to buy 3Com, a CISCO competitor in networking.
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iLikeIT. Huawei launches new phone, in the midst of the China-US scandalThe United States government has this blacklist, the Entity List. No company in the United States is allowed to cooperate with the names that appear there. ZTE went through this last year and what else do you know about them? That's why the current Huawei scandal - they were banned from networking in 2012 - in which there was talk, without evidence, even about espionage, could have radical effects on the success of the Chinese company.
Right now it was time for them to become global leaders. But also of the future in mobile telephony.
What will happen to my Huawei phone?
Okay, so what's up? Well, in short, all Huawei employees headquartered in the United States have been banned from collaborating with the Chinese for security reasons.
Google is the biggest of them - the operating system on Huawei phones belongs to them. And here we come to the dilemma of any user: what will happen to my phone?
It's relatively simple, though hard to digest: if you have a recently purchased Huawei or plan to buy one, Google services like Play, Youtube, Mail or Calendar, or security updates will work fine.
Instead, the new Android Q, announced for this fall, will no longer reach these devices. That is, you may have paid around 1000 euros for a toy that will no longer receive system updates.
Here is, in fact, the Achilles heel for the Chinese, who, let's face it, have recently released excellent models. Which means it's about to be the most delusional time of the year, as well. Can't we stop thinking, for example, what will happen to the flexible Mate X, to which everyone had quickly turned their eyes, especially since Samsung seemed to be limping with Fold? On what basis, on what operating system will you bet?
This insecurity can cause potential customers around the world to give up. Although, let's say, security updates will remain.
In China, where Google services are banned, Huawei phones receive a clean Android and their own app store, a copy of the Play Store. But what will this store look like after US companies are no longer allowed to work with Huawei? There are rumors that the Chinese are working on their own version, but ... what do we do with the imminent lack of applications such as Netflix, Instagram, Facebook or Whatsapp there? Who wants that?
Then who would buy a non-Apple phone without Android on it? What is Huawei without this operating system, no matter how good the camera with artificial intelligence? Amazon, for example, has its own version of Android, FireOS, but it's disappointingly stupid and the updates are very difficult.
Unfortunately, there is no quick fix on the horizon. Huawei seems, at the moment, a child harassed at school without knowing whether the accusations of espionage brought against the company are true or not. There are rumors that even the way 5G technology will reach us will suffer. It remains to be seen how.
It is certain that the scandal leaves a significant hole in the American economy - there is talk of losses of over 50 billion dollars a year! In 2018, Qualcomm, Intel and other US companies received $ 11 billion in payments from the Chinese for components.
There is a lot of money in the middle, and maybe that would be a reason for the ban to be at least ... reconsidered. Maybe ... who knows.
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