Too bad: The Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei has punished two employees, because the new year’s greetings sent with an iPhone of Apple. The two companies are long-standing rival.
“The traitor has been unmasked.” The Tweet on the Chinese messaging service Weibo shows that the thing is hot to the traded. Two Employees of Huawei have been using Smartphones of the competitors, Apple, to send greetings of new year in the world. A “betrayal” – which was apparently also the company from Shenzhen, “incident of the brand Huawei has harmed,” wrote the Huawei Vice President Chen Lifang in a house of communication, from the Reuters news Agency quoted.
The monthly salary of the two employees was reduced to the equivalent of 640 euros, and they were degraded, as pointed out in the communication. One of the two employees, the Marketing Director of the company. The Tweets of the two that ran through the official Twitter Account of Huawei, were quickly removed. Srceenshoots with the message but were more on the way. Under the Tweet, the usual line was: “via Twitter for iPhone”.
“via Twitter for iPhone”
Twitter and other providers such as Facebook in China are subject to strict censorship, and are not easy to reach. The iPhone was apparently used as a third-party Provider access to the news service.
Huawei and Apple, but also a fierce competitive struggle. In the last year overtook Huawei to the Americans as the world’s second-largest provider of Smartphones. The number one is Samsung. In China as early as 2015, the same moved Huawei with Apple and overtook the iPhone maker in the following year.
Set to Operate in the United States: Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou
The relationship between Huawei and the Americans were not better, as last December, the chief financial officer of Huawei Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada. The arrest happened at the behest of U.S. investigators, who accuse Huawei breaches of Iran sanctions in the United States.
“National security as a pretext”
US President, Donald Trump checks according to insiders, a still tougher action against Chinese Telecom and networking company Huawei. It is going to declare a state of emergency with reference to threats by foreign forces, said three with the matter people familiar with the Agency Reuters. This could also make ZTE from China. A spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign Ministry, said that some countries took national security as a pretext to obstruct the normal exchange of technology.
Worldwide at the end of last year led according to market research firm Gartner, the South Korean company Samsung, the ranking of the largest mobile phone manufacturer, with a share of 18.9 percent. Huawei in second place, has a share of 13.4 percent, and Apple’s 11.8 percent. I’m driven by the market, according to Gartner Analyst Anshul Gupta largely as a result of the demand for Top brands from China such as Huawei.
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