Huawei is one of the world’s most recognized electronics brands with gadgets ranges varying from everyday household products to smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Currently, the company is the world’s second-largest smartphone maker. However, being No. 2 isn’t enough for the company as Huawei’s CEO Yu Chendong said in an post-launch conference interview that the company was well on its way to become the world’s number one in 2019 if not for the U.S. Ban.
Earlier this year, the Chinese tech giant had its foreign operations crippled as the company was placed on the Entity List by the U.S. Commerce Department. This essentially blacklisted Huawei and banned American based companies like Google to have trade or business relations with the company. After being cut off from Google, the company lost Android OS (the primary OS found in its devices) and even its ARM-based chipsets that powered its devices.
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Just prior to the ban, Huawei had managed to take the number two spot away from Apple as the largest smartphone brand in the world. So it is not farfetched to assume that Huawei had a real chance of snatching the top spot from Samsung as well.
According to Richard, Huawei would’ve been the world’s number one brand if not for the ban this year itself. Furthermore, he said that people falsely assume that the brand is popular due to China and the Chinese people being patriotic; and went on to further back this statement with Huawei M6 tablet which reportedly sold over 2 million units worldwide. The senior executive stated that the most important reason for achieving such results is user satisfaction and not patriotism.
Going Forward, Huawei is seemingly confident about its future. Its indigenously built HarmonyOS or HongMengOS is expected to arrive in 2020 whilst the company plans on expanding further in the European regions.
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