Huawei CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei has made the unlikely admission that he’s a giant fan of one of many Chinese language smartphone maker’s greatest rivals.
Chatting with state media, Mr Zhengfei revealed he purchased Apple iPhones for his household when he left China.
“iPhone has an excellent ecosystem and when my household are overseas, I nonetheless purchase them iPhones, so one cannot narrowly suppose love for Huawei ought to imply loving Huawei telephones,” he stated, based on the South China Morning Publish.
The tech boss was responding to calls in China to boycott the US agency to counteract the US authorities’s just lately introduced Huawei ban.
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After inserting Huawei on its Entity Listing earlier this week, the Chinese language smartphone big has simply three months earlier than it is going to be blocked from receiving Android updates from Google.
Huawei has been contacted for remark however is but to answer the remarks.
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Mr Zhengfei claimed that the US has underestimated his firm’s power and says Huawei is ready to function with out counting on US companies.
“The US 90-day non permanent licence [to do business with Google] doesn’t have a lot affect on us, we’re prepared,” he stated earlier this week.
The Trump administration claims the ban pertains to issues over the agency’s alleged ties to the Chinese language authorities, which may doubtlessly permit China to make use of Huawei gadgets as surveillance instruments. Nevertheless no proof has been publicly shared to confirm these suspicions.
Regardless of the potential revenue to be made in his personal nation from an Apple boycott, the Huawei boss is in opposition to punishing Apple for US authorities coverage.
Past his personal fondness for Apple merchandise, different Huawei workers have additionally been caught utilizing iPhones. Earlier this yr, a tweet from the official Huawei account was marked “by way of Twitter for iPhone.”
Two workers answerable for the gaff had been reportedly demoted consequently.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
