When two Huawei employees got caught using an iPhone earlier this year to send out a “Happy #2019” greeting on Twitter, they were demoted and had to take a pay cut. Not a good look to be seen relying on your American rival’s wares, apparently — and since then, that sentiment has actually escalated in a big way. There are growing calls today in Huawei’s home country of China for a retaliatory ban on Apple products — or, at a minimum, at least a mass exodus from Apple products to homegrown China-made devices in solidarity with Huawei, which Google dramatically cut ties with over the weekend. Heck, even a Chinese diplomat on Tuesday joked on Twitter that Huawei’s logo looks like somebody chopped an apple, hint hint, into tiny pieces.
Which is why, all that said, a confession made by the billionaire founder and CEO of beleaguered Huawei to Chinese state TV on Tuesday is surprising, to say the least — turns out, he’s actually a fan of Apple.
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Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei just made a surprise confession: He’s an Apple fan originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 22 May 2019 at 15:34:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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