“Many Americans may not be familiar with Huawei Technologies, but the Shenzhen, China-based company has become one of the largest telecommunications and networking suppliers in the world, competing against the likes of Cisco and Ericsson, as well as Samsung and Apple in smartphone sales,” Janet I. Tu reports for The Seattle Times. “And it has aspirations to further broaden its global reach — despite suspicions from the U.S. government that the company could pose a national security risk and its equipment could be used to spy on, or steal from, Americans. ‘There is no evidence against us. It’s supposition,’ said Joe Kelly, Huawei’s head of international media affairs.”
“In recent years Huawei has become the world’s third largest smartphone vendor, behind Samsung and Apple,” Tu reports. “[Kelly said], ‘We’re committed to when the U.S. government decides we pose no risk. We’re patient. We’re happy to return to the U.S. market.’ One area Huawei is unlikely to return to, unless the market changes: Windows Phone.”
“Huawei produced two models running Microsoft’s smartphone OS before it said it was putting its plans for future Windows Phones on hold,” Tu reports. “‘We didn’t make any money in Windows Phone,’ Kelly said. ‘Nobody made any money in Windows Phone.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Shocking.
Yet they plan to get back into it? Does that make sense? I didn’t read the article, just the MDN re-post of it.
“One area Huawei is unlikely to return to, unless the market changes: Windows Phone.”
Analists made a whole ton of money thanks to Ballmer.
Shareholders are going to lose a whole lot of money because of the internal systems set up inside of Microsoft which result in the loss of customers over time.
Are you saying that Microsoft has a department or has committed funding to do determine when the optimal moment occurs to lose a customer? How does the customer receive notification that their relationship with MS is over? What if the customer ends it first? Can they opt out of the program? I’ll bet that happens all the time, though /s
“…despite suspicions from the U.S. government that the company could pose a national security risk and its equipment could be used to spy on, or steal from, Americans”
As opposed to American telecommunications equipment providers that they *know* can be used to spy on, or steal from, Americans.
but notice the guy never denied it; he only said there was no evidence, just supposition.
They have already denied it many times but at some point more denials just sound untrustworthy. It is like saying “trust me”, it sounds bad no matter who says it.
There is really no winning short of letting third parties review source code or using open source, and most proprietary companies have a hard time with either.
You are right, there is no evidence that “the company could pose a national security risk and its equipment could be used to spy on, or steal from, Americans.”
However there is tons of evidence of that “the NSA had “pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters,” monitored Huawei executives’ communications, and gathered information that could allow the NSA to “exploit Huawei’s technology so that when the company sold equipment to other countries … the N.S.A. could roam through their computer and telephone networks,” according to The New York Times.”
Now who’s the threat to global security here?
Or at least, who is the sloppy threat to global security here?
Dumpster truck drivers and landfill operatives also made a shit ton of money clearing out Microsoft warehouses. Landlords renting premium retail space to Microsoft’s beleaguered retail store operation were royally enriched. Marketeers and advertising agencies did pretty well too – most are now driving around in new german autos. Then there’s office chair suppliers in redwood city, as well as cocaine dealers in ballmers neighborhood who shipped record volumes of product.
I call baloney.
Also the former owner of the Clippers made Tons of Money as well! LOL
No thank you to Windows Phone.
But also, no thank you to Huawei. Become an inventive, innovative and creative company (in contrast to the rest of China) and I’ll care. Until then: You’re a Chinese company, enough said.