Chinese phones - what's their future like?

[TheAngryDog]

With the recent metaphorical kicking Huawei are taking right now, what does the outlook look like for other Chinese phone manufacturers like OnePlus, Oppo etc? Are they going to find themselves under the pressure and restrictions as Huawei? Is this just the tip of the iceberg?

[Brainpox]

I think it's an eye opener for all non-US manufacturers (i.e. not just Chinese, but Japanese and Korean as well). I reckon we'll see them forking Android and doing their own thing with it, with their own apps for core services and alternative app stores.

[GeneralSinn]

Tbh it’s a prime opportunity for WeChat to take its multifaceted app platform that contains pretty much all the features within it and branch to its own OS - it’d sell like hot cakes across the Far East where the only provisio on any handset is that it runs WeChat!

[AJB88]

GeneralSinn said:

Tbh it’s a prime opportunity for WeChat to take its multifaceted app platform that contains pretty much all the features within it and branch to its own OS - it’d sell like hot cakes across the Far East where the only provisio on any handset is that it runs WeChat!

Sounds like that might be one of the answers.

[WolfAir]

What about american companies that manufacture in china... Apple being one of them. Does this ban extend to them?

[buggalugs]

WolfAir said:

What about american companies that manufacture in china... Apple being one of them. Does this ban extend to them?

Feck knows, it seems the US is going to reach as high and far as it can to 'win' this trade war. They'll have you arrested somewhere random then extradited, then spend a few years figuring out of you're guilty or not. The land of the free.