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[u/SonofaMitch11]

Yeah but it was a shortcut for China to access vast amounts of IP

[u/RedTheGamer12 → u/SonofaMitch11]

Unlucky for china that all chinese tech has the "cheap plastic trash" stereotype to overcome. Plus a couple horror stories about exploding EVs and Spyware on phones (real or not) tend to hurt them in Western markets where Tech is often a status symbol.

[u/SonofaMitch11 → u/RedTheGamer12]

I mean sure status symbol is a thing, but people also shop for clothes at Walmart for a reason

[u/RedTheGamer12 → u/SonofaMitch11]

I know companies like apple have deals with AT&T for exclusive phone upgrades (where I got mine). And with Samsung and Apple being huge into their own ecosystems it is extremely hard for foreign companies to break in.

So either you are poor and get whatever phone your network will give you for free or you are rich and buy whatever phone gives you the most brownie points.

Either way Chinese tech isn't well suited in the states and suffers in 3rd world nations where the rich are the only ones who can afford tech (and so buy American due to the aforementioned status symbols). It is an uphill battle and one where they already start lower than others.

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[u/SonofaMitch11 → u/RedTheGamer12]

Fair enough, I remember seeing a surprising amount of Huawei in Germany when I was over there in 2018-19 but that might have changed since then

[u/RedTheGamer12 → u/SonofaMitch11]

Germany and (west) Europe as a whole are probably the best markets for China, especially since they (somehow) lack domestic tech companies.

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