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Huawei may have a backup OS in case it has to drop Android
It'd be hard to blame Huawei executives if they're feeling very nervous lately. The US has created havoc for ZTE by renewing an export ban over trade violations, potentially depriving it of its Android license and leaving it without a platform. How would Huawei avoid a similar fate? Simple: it would use its own operating system instead. South China Morning Post sources have claimed that Huawei has been developing its own mobile operating system (there are reportedly tablet and PC equivalents) ever since it and ZTE faced an American investigation in 2012. It's considered an investment for "worst-case scenarios," the insiders said.
The company hasn't released this OS because it isn't up to Android's level of quality and app support, the sources added.
Huawei hasn't confirmed or denied the software's existence, saying only that it "has no plans" to launch an in-house OS in the "foreseeable future" -- if there is one, there's no rush to use it. There was a purported meeting leak in 2012 that referenced a new platform.
See also: ZTE and the Unknown Unknowns
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by drussell on Tuesday May 01 2018, @12:49AM (6 children)
Weird... The US "powers that be" are being idiots and forcing others to develop their own solutions?
I don't like Huawei or ZTE and have never purchased their hardware, nor do I intend to anytime in the near future, but if the US wants to shoot itself in the foot by alienating everyone and everything on the planet, I say... good luck and good riddance!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday May 01 2018, @12:54AM (3 children)
You're forgetting that Trade Wars™ are good, and easy to win.
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:14AM (1 child)
Right up until the point where the other side starts to react. Then they aren't so easy to win. And also not so good - but we've digressed already. What were we saying again?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:33AM
> What were we saying again?
You may have blinked and skipped a news cycle. Mr. Zombie was sarcastically quoting some idiot. [twitter.com]
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:20PM
Hell yeah Trade Wars [wikipedia.org] is a good thing.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:50AM
It would not be the first time - see "Chinese exclusion policy of NASA" [wikipedia.org].
As results:
- the Chinese started to develop their own technologies and space programs (pushed out from ISS - develops a space station on its own [wikipedia.org]).
- China remained and established other such collaborations with Europe and Russia (for Moon and deep-space) [gbtimes.com] (to the point of Russia considering dropping out with US and focusing on China [popularmechanics.com]).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:56AM
Google Pixel and Pixel XL were manufactured by HTC [wikipedia.org], which... wait for it... is the westernalized name for "宏達國際電子股份有限公司". True, Taiwan is not quite mainland China... (yet. It will be unfortunate when it will be, but I think it's inevitable on long run)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford