The Chinese electronics company Huawei is badly hit. Due to US sanctions, Huawei is boycotted by large US corporations. Market access in the USA is also made more difficult for the Chinese group. The presentation of the new top smartphone Mate 30 in Munich can be understood as a reaction to these international problems. It almost seems as if Huawei is trying to show what the West is now going to miss in the sense of a defiant Now more than ever!. Due to the Chinese-American difficulties and their consequences, it is hardly to be expected that the market will sell like hot cakes.
The effects of the US sanctions
The effects of the US sanctions are clear: Huaweis’s new smartphone will come onto the market without Google services, without WhatsApp and without Facebook. It must not use Google’s Android system and will not be equipped with the Play Store where apps can be purchased. All of these are bad starting conditions for a new smartphone.
Richard Yu, who is responsible for the...
