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Comment by langsoul-com

16 days ago

Worked with Huawei. Look at the smartphone market pre and post Huawei ban, immediate crater.

Huawei didn't have the best phones by far. DJI is miles ahead of anything else one can buy.

  • I agree that Huawei didn't have the best phones, but it was not that far off, and for the price it was arguably a better phone.

    Need a phone with a great camera? Then Huawei is much better than anything Samsung, Apple, and Google makes. Huawei market share was taking off at crazy speed before the bans on both the software and hardware side.

The Huawei ban's impact on smartphones was mostly a side effect. The real target was wireless infrastructure. Any time spent analyzing the phone stuff is a waste, that was all mostly collateral damage as we tried to prevent Huawei from dominating our domestic 5G (and related) networks.

I'm sorry, but what exactly happen after Huawei ban?

  • Pre Huawei ban, they had 30% smartphone market. Each year that looked like it was trending upwards without any sign of stopping.

    The year after? Poof, very small percentage of the global market.