* Posts by ipaxa

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The new Huawei is going upmarket, but the old Huawei still threatens

ipaxa

Re: The real challenge for Huawei

Do you think Huawei is just a phone company?

Huawei's main business is telecom, they are the worlds largest telecom equipment company, their R&D team develops and build 4G backbone networks, towers, switches, and undersea optical cables, they are the uncontested leader in 5G tech and own the critical polar code patents that make 5G work. Their chip division dont just make Kirin, they designs their own front end and baseband processor that goes into both network gear and phones.

Compared to those, phones are just their side business, a side business thats only been around a around 5 years. The fact that their 5 year old side business now make better phones than Apple speaks more for their R&D power than any minor design feature.

The fact that Apple spends almost as much as Huawei on "R&D", yet all they can come up with is trivial design features only fanboys will call innovation, really says alot about innovation in America in general.