As Huawei waits to see whether Donald Trump’s departure will signal a change of fortune for its embattled smartphone business, it has launched a new strike against its Android partners, praising Apple’s iPhone as “the world’s best” 5G phone and talking up the quality of its technology for iPhone 12 users.
Apple and Huawei 5G
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Before its brutal dismantling by Trump’s blacklist, Huawei had built an Android powerhouse, ascending the smartphone league table, challenging Samsung for its long held top spot, even taking over for a few months last year. But the reality is that Huawei never looked to Samsung for its inspiration, its eyes have always been on Cupertino instead.
I have argued for some time that Huawei’s strategy, its keenness to control both its software ecosystem and hardware is much more akin to Apple than anything on the Android side of the house. This was confirmed last year, when the company’s U.K….