The phones were impressive and very affordable. We're talking $200-300 for 6gb ram devices, 128gb storage, etc.
Google, Apple are right to be worried.
But 10x faster (or capable) and 2x the cost? That's not outrageous. BTW that's where we currently are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Webtop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
Have you been in a coma for 5 years? That has already happened.
The most power hungry component is the display... The technology there has not kept up, in fact they grow bigger and consume more power.
If making smartphones is really as easy as you make it out to be, and smartphone prices are rising, then why isn't that being captured in the global profit share? Considering that Androids are vastly more popular than iOS phones, there would be no reason why Apple's getting 62% of global profits.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/780367/global-mobile-han...
Edit: Of course, I am assuming there wasn't a substantial subsidy from somewhere, but from my point of view, it didn't have a contract attached.
I asked my friend how is that possible so he showed me an image of a map of Xiaomi warehouses. I can't recall if he said there were dozens or hundreds per city.
Feels like a viral marketing stunt to me. There's zero reason why anyone would want a phone within 5 minutes (or even same day). In the off chance that they do, they could simply walk into a physical store and buy it there. There's no need to set up a real time delivery network for that one guy who needs a phone delivered the same day and can't walk into a store.
>I asked my friend how is that possible so he showed me an image of a map of Xiaomi warehouses. I can't recall if he said there were dozens or hundreds per city.
I have a feeling they're closer to "stores" than warehouses.
Possible. But he looked really pissed that there was a camera filming him.
I'm not sure if it was a phone he ordered.
I would get a Huawei Matebook except that it would
really rock the boat at my work, and that's not
something I want to do.
Could you elaborate on where things stand as of this writing, and if they are ever likely to improve, post-trade war?
Americans who have even a vague understanding of technology typically assume everything is backdoored by at least one government. So the Intel Management Engine is a fed backdoor, Yandex forwards all your mail to the KGB, Huawei spies on you for the Chicoms, and so on. And the Chinese have a reputation for industrial espionage, so nobody would use Huawei at work.
After being on Android devices for years and recently switching to iOS I'd be reluctant to go back
If, however, A's criticism of B is not an attempt to "make the world a better place" but to prove one's own relative moral superiority, then not only is it highly pertinent to point out A's own moral failings, but also there need be nothing relativistic about it, since ex hypothesi the conversation no longer concerns the morality of this or that action but only whether one party has a legitimate claim to feel superior to the other.
It's not always easy to tell whether one is in the one or the other situation.
GP is correct - any older Cisco employee can count off a laundry list of things Huawei directly stole from them, and the Chinese state absolutely subsidizes them. GP is making the point that it isn't fair to compare Huawei prices to Apple prices given the amount of engineering Huawei stole from other companies and their government subsidies.
China also has lower labor costs generally. Lots of things cost less in other countries for the same reason.
It's rare for anyone to come up with something genuinely original. We depend on education and culture and many things to develop anything. Then we argue about things like intellectual property rights because such conventions are an attempt to sort out how to make society work given that ideas are easily "stolen" and if we don't allow for some means for originators of new things to profit, we actively discourage our best and brightest from contributing to forward progress.
But this forum skews American. Most people will argue "for" the American side and "against" the Chinese for that reason alone.
I'm only pointing out the hypocrisy and silliness of arguing this as if America has some absolute moral high ground.
I follow Natives on Twitter because, according to oral family tradition, I'm a small part Cherokee. I'm pretty sure most full-blooded Natives would happily ship me back to Europe along with the rest of the whites.
I don't know the right answer going forward. I just believe that you need actual facts to find it.
The implicit assumption that China is The Bad Guy and America is The Good Guy is unlikely to yield a real solution when there is so much low hanging fruit for saying "The two nations aren't all that different."
But it seems my thoughts are likely wholly unwelcome here, as is so often the case.
I wonder how those Natives you know on twitter would carve up the land once they got it back - do Apaches need to go back to Canada, since they invaded the southwest only in the ~16th century and pushed out the Pueblo people?
If you cannot tell the difference between the design aesthetic of an Apple store and a Huawei one I will heavily discount your taste as a guide to my I own. I’ve only been to Huawei stores in China, perhaps it’s different elsewhere. The tables are plastic fake wood. The stores smell bad when new, like cheap plastic or putting your nose right next to the benches in a just opened McDonald’s. I assume the same kind of care for aesthetics and design goes into their products so if you want a bad cheap copy of the surface level of good design go with Huawei.
If you've been to Huawei stores then you should be familiar with the build quality of Huawei products, otherwise your opinion is incredibly hard to square. And the insinuation that current crop of Huawei devices are copy cat designs is out of touch. The exception being the MateBook line, which if anything, has superior derivative design given Apples poor track record in notebooks these last few years.