This immediately made me wonder if I have ever seen "without offering any actual proofs" added as a qualifier to any of the press statements of Apple, Microsoft or Google.
Don't get me wrong, that kind of skepticism is good. It just feels naive and tribal to limit it to the Chinese companies.
Second Largest smartphone manufacturer. Largest supplier of network equipment. 6-7 largest tech company in the world. 170k employees in 170 countries. 100+ billion yearly revenue. They are not even allowed to do business in USA. Arguably the most profitable market in the world.
How so?
We can't expect media to be entirely neutral. Both sides will tend to focus almost exclusively on their own achievements and the other's failures and mistakes in order to maintain the balance. It may be a good idea to read both sides and then "average out".
Lets remove Huawei with Uber.
Uber accused of espionage, bribery and hacking by former employee:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/uber-accused-of-espionage-...
"I am an Uber employee and I support the drivers’ strikes.":
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/i-am-an-uber-employee-and-...
I haven't.
The US government and judicial system routinely interfere to give advantages and sometimes outright eliminate competitors to American companies.
A very good example is the way the acquisition of Alstom by GE was delivered.
I would go a little further, even the use of the verb "to claim" is in itself a little diminutive, had it been one of the big US companies their CEO's would have probably "said", "stated" or "announced" or "affirmed" (and not "claimed").
https://www.cnet.com/news/wwdc-2018-apple-diss-android-faceb...
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Huawei have yet to prove themselves in this space.
yeah right.
Do you think that happened by mere chance, or is there another reason you inherently deny their success?
You mean #1, right? :-) https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-...
Edit: In general it’s quite fascinating how backwards the US smartphone technology scene is. I only recently became aware of this being involved in thst bubble myself. The US is middle of the pack at best when it comes to mobile networks, it’s way behind when it comes to phone hardware. The one area where it leads is software and services, but it will be interesting if the US can maintain the lead here, especially since basically all the American software companies are trying to emulate WeChat.
Yeah, about that: https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/annual-report/2018
=> Net profit 59,345 CNY Million 25.1%
I believe that's about $8bn. And the 25.1% at the end is the increase from last year.
Take it differently : imagine microsoft announced a brand new mobile OS. Would it say it's "of course more powerful and secure than android and iOs", period ? Could you imagine that they wouldn't get flared up ?
Edit: To close04: No one, but you ever talked about Cisco.
This being said my main reason for being skeptic about HarmonyOS is that it's a v1.0. And just like almost all other v1.0s it has a lot to prove and improve.
Anyway, I think you moved the goal posts. You were implying they should not be included in the group to be sceptical about, rather than any kind of scale.
Also, Apple doesn't make these claims. They compare to their own previous generations when they want to make a comparison. They rarely mention competitors.
I really don't think your concern is warranted in this case.
You can't stop detect small smuggling but a periodic pull of software updates looks vastly different from uploads of all your photos, just for example.