Huawei's founder says his family uses Apple products while travelling abroad

Huawei'south founder Ren Zhengfei confessed that his family uses iPhones and purchases Apple computers when travelling away.

Speaking to a group of Chinese reporters on May 21st at Huawei'southward headquarter in Shenzhen, Cathay, Ren expressed that Apple should be served as a office model for Huawei in the evolution their software ecosystem where every device is closely connected.

"Many of my family members have told me the advantage of the Apple ecosystem," Ren said in Guancha, a Chinese publication. "Richard Yu [chair of Huawei's consumer partition] was very unhappy that I am promoted for another visitor."

During the press briefing with Chinese media, Ren stated that Huawei volition always alibi itself from politics. He dedicated the U.South. companies that halted businesses with Huawei and expressed appreciation past Google and IBM's assistance in the past few years.

"Allow's speak out more in favour of U.S. firms. If y'all are going to attack someone, so aim at the U.Southward. politicians," Ren said.

"I'm businesslike. 1 tin can't be deemed patriotic simply for using Huawei products, or the other way round. Huawei is a commercial business. If you similar [the product] then utilise it. Do not politicise it," Ren said. He likewise noted that Huawei'southward advertisement in Prc never contained anything that pictured Huawei as "national pride".

The ongoing nationalist and anti-U.S. sentiment in Mainland china could play to Huawei's favour and hurt Apple tree's sales in the land. Chinese customers are calling everyone to "switch to Huawei" equally a sign of support for Cathay during the ongoing trade feud with the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a recent executive social club, he placed several companies on an 'Entity List,' including China-based smartphone manufacturer Huawei and 70 affiliates.

The social club doesn't specifically call out Huawei merely it "invoke[s] the International Emergency Economical Powers Act," a law that grants the president the authority to regulate whatever commerce that could pose a national security threat to the U.S. In this instance, Huawei and the other companies added to the Entity List.

Source: Guancha.cn

Correction 05/28/2019: ZTE is non part of the U.S. governments entity list. MobileSyrup has updated the above story to reverberate this.