Just a note: the author claims Huawei is the number 2 smartphone company ahead of Apple, but the cited story was regarding a 2 mo streak in 2017 before Apple released the iPhone 8. According to IDC [0], the rankings currently go Samsung, Apple, then Huawei in smartphone market share.

[0] https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/01/31/idc-xiaomi-is-fourth-l...