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Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by daxterspeed »

knocte wrote: post #17

Well, Android is opensource so they will be able to just run it, but without that google crap such as gmail, maps, assistant, etc... Which sounds like a good thing to me. I'll try to buy a new Huawei phone soon.

Huawei being a Chinese company are perfectly content with spying on you without Google trying to interfere. Be prepared in a few years when certain network requests just fail, like trying to send a comment mentioning 996.icu.

Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by angel_j »

All I know about Huawei is that they produced what seemed like at least half of welfware phones—the kind available to anybody on most any kind of welfare, including EBT—and these phones were utter garbage. Reasonably, one could say they had ripped off the government, these phones were such crap. Screen a .5mm pane of brittle glass that a tap could break. Barely ran android, laden with crapware, basically needed to be plugged into a power source at all times. Some you couldn't get the SIM card out, like to put in your late model Samsung Galaxy. Pure garbage, yet the welfare service the phones are supposed to support is extremely valuable to a lot of people.

Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by robertAngst »

Instead of letting companies do international business, the government creates an artificial war.

It only takes the Republican Party winning 1 election to destroy economic freedom.

My political thoughts are going to change drastically if we can resew economic conditions with China after Trump leaves office.

Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by oldjokes »

dirtyid wrote: post #2

If true, this is certainly a nuclear move. There's a variety of first party app stores in China, though I doubt they'll see much success convincing Western users to switch. Curious if there's going to be antitrust fallout from markets outside the US for unilaterally crippling vendors at behest of US foreign policy. Is Microsoft or Apple going to pull their app stores as well? What happened to project Dragon Fly? On t…

The internet, at least as we knew it, is dead. What we have now is a highly segemented, highly federated, highly monitored, centralized communication network. The walls and the controls around access are getting more intricate every day, we've long ago left the idea of an open network in the trash can.

It sure seems like the future is more and more walls, more and more reactionary defensive measures. Nobody seems to have any inclination to resist this trend.

Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

wswkb wrote: post #20

>the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world Around the world?

They appear to be working hard on having it blacklisted in the UK AFAICT. BBC Click did a report and a guy from GCHQ basically said "it's not a problem" whilst there seems to be a deal of press trying to push the political angle to make it politically expedient -- I can only assume that's a propaganda attempt by USA?

I'm surprised that Huawei is such a threat to USA industry to be honest.

Perhaps Trump's team has shares in their opposition, or was trying to short them?

Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

daxterspeed wrote: post #21
knocte wrote: post #17

Well, Android is opensource so they will be able to just run it, but without that google crap such as gmail, maps, assistant, etc... Which sounds like a good thing to me. I'll try to buy a new Huawei phone soon.

Huawei being a Chinese company are perfectly content with spying on you without Google trying to interfere. Be prepared in a few years when certain network requests just fail, like trying to send a comment mentioning 996.icu.

Which USA and USA based companies would never do; praise God for the USA defending us all from giving our money to their industrial opponents, right?

Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by Creationer »

At what point does China just develop its own mobile OS?

There seems value in just taking the reigns, and making whatever you create open-source, so that ZTE and all the other Chinese manufacturers can use it as well.

Its certainly a major blow to the value of Huawei phones.

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