It makes me sad that Huawei may now be driven to an even greater distance from the US market—particularly the consumer market. The phones that Huawei makes are quality enough, and cheap enough for me to consider them a staple of the Maker movement (at least that involving android smartphones). If I'm gonna tear apart a phone or at least put it in harsh conditions (like we do at http://rfcx.org), I at least want it to be reliable and expendable, financially. It's now hard enough to get Huawei phones in the US, and I fear it's now only going to get harder. I know that's not really the point—this article is really about spying, and US is not alone in doing so, by any means, but this news affected me on another level.