It's the software, stupid!
Nice hardware is nice, but I'd be willing to wager what actually keeps iPhone users on iPhones is iOS and the Apple ecosystem.
Please stop writing these articles with headlines insinuating there's some rivalry between Apple and these particular manufacturers of Android smartphones. Nothing about these particular Android phones makes them any more or less competition for iPhones than any other Android smartphones. They are competition for Samsung far more than for Apple.
Why do you think Apple now has its largest iPhone product offering and it widest price range ever?
Huawei is moving into the US market to eat a piece of premium pie. It might even turn out to be Apple pie. I wouldn't rule anything out just yet.
That's a premium pie that wasn't growing very much and was territory of Apple and Samsung. Now Huawei will stake a claim to part of it and also hit hard on lower tiers.
Just two years ago Apple had over 90% of handset profits. A few months ago it was 79%. This morning I read it was down to 60%.
The premium band is not growing but more companies want a piece of the pie.
Apple had little option but to reconfigure it's strategy which, to a large degree, is heavily reliant on US success. Now, when a monster the size of Huawei comes to your town and plunks down 100 million dollars in brand recognition for the US market alone, you take serious notice because they have the capacity to turn things over.
Whether the move plays off for Huawei or not, remains to be seen, but even collateral damage (assuming Samsung is hardest hit) for Apple will be noticeable.
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It’s more about potentially incriminating data being collected by the Chinese government.
This depends on who it is incriminating for.
While the US was banning (or recommending against) the use of Huawei's networking backbone infrastructure in the US, the US (via NSA) wanted to get into Huawei's products in China. Look for operation 'shotgiant'.
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Hmmm I hope they copy Apple in terms of their names too. Something tells me people in the US will have a hard time saying Xiaomi and Huawei.
People won't have issues. Just like with many exotic foods, drinks and cultural references, people learn them very quickly.