Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Marques Brownlee" channel.

  1. I think Huewei has a couple of things going for it as it faces this situation. From what I understand Huawei's handsets are less expensive than Samsung and Apple counterparts and while this will probably not help them in the United States, Western Europe, Oceania or Japan, in the rest of the world that distinction is still very important. The other thing is that Huawei is going to have the full support of the Chinese government behind it. Whatever shortfalls are identified will be researched with the kinds of budgets that only care about success both by R&D wings within Huawei and also within Chinese government labs, universities and other subsidized companies in China's exploding tech sector. Along with this China already has, because of the great firewall, a number of applications that perform the same functions as Google and Facebook. Right now these are largely limited to China but Baidu, Alibaba and WeChat could be opened up and marketed internationally to replace these American companies. After all, Google and Facebook replaced other American companies (Yahoo! & MySpace). It may not be enough, but I think international sympathies are going to be with Huawei during the trade war. For a while it was very hard for Android and Apple phones to interact, but that need stimulated applications to develop to run on both platforms. If this goes on long enough it may create opportunities for application producers and retailers in third countries to develop new apps and workarounds to accommodate interaction between differing platforms.
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