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Huawei’s Retaliation: Massive Apple Boycott Sweeps China Amid U.S. Disputes
iDropNews ^ | 12/27/2018 | Troy Thompson

Posted on 12/27/2018 11:33:15 AM PST by Zhang Fei

Tech-industry juggernauts Apple, Samsung and Huawei each have their own unique and strategic (yet often hilarious) way of taunting one another’s flagship devices. But amid recent events like the uncertain state of U.S. China Trade relations and arrest of the firm’s Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, the riff between China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and U.S.-based Apple, Inc. has escalated far beyond their typical friendly-fire.

Some 20+ Chinese firms have already urged their employees to boycott Apple products and, in retaliation, encourage them to buy from Huawei instead.

Most firms partaking of these anti-Apple boycotts are reportedly offering their employees up to a 20 percent subsidy off of the cost of a new Huawei smartphone — though some are giving new devices free of charge, too, according to Nikkei Asian Review. In addition to promoting the purchase of Huawei smartphones, nearly all of these nationally-known Chinese firms have announced plans to increase their purchases of other Huawei products including business management solutions and equipment.

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Boycotting Apple really hurts Trump so bad. lol


21 posted on 12/27/2018 11:29:49 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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