The dominoes keep tumbling for Huawei since the Trump administration added the company to its so-called Entity List , effectively barring the Chinese telco from doing business with organizations based in the United States.
So far, Huawei has lost access to Google, Android, Qualcomm , Intel, Microsoft, and — perhaps most devastatingly — Arm . Now, it is also temporarily losing its membership in the Wi-Fi Alliance (via Nikkei Asian Review ), which could have serious long-term effects on its business.
Here is a statement on the matter from the Alliance:
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The Wi-Fi Alliance is a consortium of companies — including Apple , Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Intel, as well as many others — who influence the development of new wireless technologies. Although Huawei’s temporary loss of membership doesn’t mean the company can’t create Wi-Fi products anymore, it does mean Huawei will no longer have an influence on where Wi-Fi technology is going.
In other words, if its loss of membership in the Wi-Fi Alliance sticks, it won’t have much of a short-term effect; in the long-term, it could mean Huawei will be far less competitive.
A possible response to this could be Huawei and China developing their own Wi-Fi consortium or joining with other consortiums not based in the U.S. While these are viable options, without a membership to the U.S.-based Wi-Fi Alliance, Huawei will have a seriously difficult time competing in the global market.
In related news, Huawei was also barred from the SD Association today, and several Huawei devices were also removed from the Android Enterprise Recommended program .
I have been to shenzen where both huawei and iphone are made. I strongly bliv china will win. Infact looks like huawei knew this was coming so they had plans already.
They just launched an operating system that supports android apps. If windows phone os dd this they would be far away saa i
If china is clever, they should approach the trade war in general and avoid going toe to toe with the US. If the US bans more Chinese companies, that’s when china should start targeting specific industries. Kwa sasa wanafaa tu watumie blanket tax hikes. The gap left by Huawei can only be filled by chinese other asian companies. It’s not like apple will fill that gap.
If they dive head-first into protecting Huawei, it will seem like the company is a government project. This would give credibility to the US allegation and motivate more countries into banning Huawei.
But if they ban oneplus, zte, xiaomi, etc then China can target specific US companies in retaliation.
Looks like they simply want Huawei out of the business completely on every possible level of that for sure, I do not understand how mr. Trump will continue this firght with them but it maybe totally not worth it. Are they really spying on Americans ?
Not really, China produces majority of the rare earth metals because the west doesn’t want to pollute their environments, so they delegate the dirty stuff to China. If push came to shove Australia, Brazil and even the US can produce their own albeit more expensively.
China’s leverage lies with their huge capacity of dirty and cheap electricity, labor and extensive supply chain.
SMH.
Their own OS means no Google Apps.
No Skyworth means your phone will not even work with the networks in Kenya.
No Arm means slow chipsets.
No Qualcomm means standard compatibility problems
No Intel means issues with speeds
No Microsoft means using Linux of all Os’es
Now that Coring Glass imewanyima Gorilla Glass. They said they will use Japan Glass.
You know how Sony Phones glass is a disaster.
Huawei is fucked