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    7 months ago

    The wonders of banning iPhones

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      7 months ago

      No it’s not that. Huawei has a very good name in China and new models sell out in minutes.

      Thanks to the US ban Huawei hands had to put a lot of work into making their own OS, ecosystem and CPU chips.

      And they’ve managed to pull it off. They have some very clever people working there.

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        7 months ago

        HarmonyOS

        Or as I like to call it, “it’s not Android bro I swear to God bro legit domestic OS broooo”

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      7 months ago

      Huawei is the iPhone of China

      The same level of garbage as iPhones too, nowadays they have a fully locked ecosystem that’s practically hostile to FOSS and they don’t seem to care much for GPL

      Hell, Huawei was shitty before they got sanctioned, after that they are given free reign

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        7 months ago

        Do you know any good write-ups about the ecosystem?

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          Huawei? I don’t know of any write-ups, but basically

          There is a HongMengOS (Harmony OS) that’s a microkernel for embedded systems, there is also another OS by the same name that’s basically We Have Android At Home™, they have their own app store and their own app SDK that last time I checked, you needed to submit your real life government ID and credentials to be able to download.

          Imagine that, you want to develop an app and you need to give your full legal detail to Huawei for review and after you’re manually cleared you can be bestowed the permission of downloading the fucking IDE

          They also don’t provide any device sources and their bootloader is fully locked down, it’s completely impossible to use anything other than Huawei shite on their phones

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      7 months ago

      You do realise that Huawei is a huge company and their smartphone business is a small part of it, right?