When a bird leaves the ground and perches on the ant-hill, it is still very much on the ground. Yes, that Huawei has overtaken Apple in China, on Android, is more of the same: America’s technologies remain catalytic in Huawei’s roadmap since Android* is American.
I see this as a win for Google’s Alphabet than Huawei: “A recent report by Jefferies analysts has revealed that Huawei has dethroned Apple’s iPhone from its position as the smartphone market share leader in China. According to the analysts, it reports that smartphone sales in China have shown positive growth year-over-year driven by high double-digit growth in Android sales led by Huawei, but Apple’s iPhone has seen a significant double-digit decline.”
Of course, you cannot take away the exuberance which Huawei Mate 60 Pro is bringing with its satellite capabilities. It does make it clear that if Apple iPhone should be considered a category-king, its next major update must have satellite features. And when that happens, a new era of smartphone usage will begin. Yes, terrestrial telcos will lose local comparative advantages, and the real best will then win.
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Huawei on the power of Mate 60 Pro will capture a lot of market share from Apple iPhone in China, over the next few years, if Apple does not respond fast enough.
Things happen but you would not have expected that Huawei could come back within years, to be put in the same bucket as Apple, considering that it was on ground zero about two years ago. Yes, Huawei Mate 60 Pro is now seen as a generation leading smartphone for some remarkable breakthroughs it has inside it: “Huawei’s chip breakthrough poses new threat to Apple in China”, CNBC wrote.
Correction sir. Huawai run on HarmonyOS and not Android.
— Okonwannaji 1 (@BillyD64135112) October 17, 2023
Legally, you are correct. But technically, HarmonyOS runs on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) components. You can remove that A to decide if HarmonyOS will exist without Android! Yes, you can decide if there would be HarmonyOS without AOSP!
Comment on my last post on Huawei: How is Huawei using AOSP (Android Open Source Project) a win for Alphabet (Google parent) when the technology is not licensed to Huawei? Google is not counting activation licenses of Huawei Mate 60 phones and other Huawei brands. You need to understand the difference between Android and AOSP as well.
My Response: Microsoft intentionally made its Windows to be breakable as China was adopting Linux at scale. By making it easy to clone, Chinese then avoided Linux and went with the “free” Windows. A few more years later, Microsoft asked the Chinese to pay $1 to get the real deal. Chinese users did, and Linux went to the museum for personal computing. Today, China is a Windows nation, not a Linux one when it comes to personal computing. Google* benefits because AOSP is a scion which keeps the Android brand alive in China despite sanctions. Sanctions will go one day and Android will evolve.
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