Huawei cloning Apple parts, rewarding employees for tech theft

[crazytown]

Huawei cloning Apple parts, rewarding employees for tech theft

China's Huawei uses "dubious" tactics to try to reverse engineer technology from Apple and other competitors in the electronics market, a report charged on Monday.

In November, for example, a Huawei engineer heading up smartwatch development tracked down a supplier that helps build the Apple Watch's heart rate sensor, The Information said. The person arranged a meeting with the claim he could offer a manufacturing contract, but instead probed for details about the Apple Watch, an anonymous executive at the supplier said.

The engineer was accompanied by four researchers, and together the group is said to have spent an hour and a half asking about the Watch. With nothing given Huawei went silent.

Huawei has reportedly used similar tactics against companies like Cisco, Motorola, and Akhan Semiconductor. The U.S. Justice Department in fact claims that Huawei has a program that rewards employees for stealing data, with better bonuses based on how confidential information is.

https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/huawei-cloning-apple-parts-rewarding-employees-for-tech-theft

In the early days of Android, devotees cheered on Samsung copying as much of the iPhone as they could get away with.



Fast forward to 2017. Apple introduces iPhone X, distinguished by a notch and camera lens placement. Six months later Huawei unveils the Nova



If you want to buy a laptop from Huawei, there’s the ‘Matebook Pro’ to compete with the MacBook Pro.

At the moment Apple has a technological lead with the Watch 4. Let’s hope that ‘Sammy’ can come up with something just the same, only better and cheaper.

[malaise]

1. So how come they managed 5G and left Apple behind? n/t

[crazytown]

2. Huawei have left everyone behind on 5G networking.

US company Qualcomm currently has the best 5G available for handsets. They are suing IBM to prevent them entering the market.