China's leading smartphone company has extended its support for the tech giant.
Last week’s order from U.S. Department of Justice asking Apple to help the FBI in unlocking the iPhone 5C owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the terrorists in San Bernardino attack, disrupted the calm in the Silicon Valley. Uncertainty and confusion erupted when Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the tech giant will fight in the court against the government order of impairing the security of its devices. A lot of Silicon Valley tech companies came forward to back Apple’s firm stance. Now, the support for tech titan has been extended to China when China’s largest smartphone maker, Huawei Technologies Inc. announced that it stands with Apple Inc. –the company who is about to enter in a legal battle with the law enforcement agencies in an attempt to keep the privacy of the consumers intact.
Richard Yu, who leads the company’s fast growing consumer devices division, was present in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress to reveal the company’s first laptop which comes in with a detachable screen. While talking to the Bloomberg Television Richard Yu strongly supported Apple and said that maintaining the privacy and security of the customers is the key. On being asked about the recent riff between Apple and the government and the tech giant stand even though the subject device has been linked to a terrorist attack, the CEO answered that he “personally supports Tim Cook’s idea.” He said: “We should really protect the consumers’ privacy and security.”
Cook’s “idea” is rational. He has expressed his concerns that once a backdoor for the device is created; hundreds of thousands of devices’ security will be put in jeopardy. Although the FBI has counter argued that the government has only been asking to create an exception for one particular device and not to invent a master key which can, on general level, impact all the devices. Tech analysts agree that a backdoor is “too dangerous to create.” The thought is well endorsed by Yu who has labeled the privacy to be “the top one” matter. This makes Huawei the first Asian company to record its support for the iPhone maker.
Giving the insight about how far the company has come, Yu rejoiced over the fact that a short time ago, the Chinese company stood at top 10 and now it is standing firm at top three. The CEO suggested that it is more likely that the company will become No.1 in few years. He also highlighted that even though, currently, China’s market plummeted down and had a very slow pace however, Huawei still managed to increase its market share.
Yu also noted that for the first time since its inception in 2009, the company, in 2015, was able to ship more than 100 million smartphones in the overseas market. The fastest growing smartphone maker is also reported to grab 70% of the consumer sales from overseas.
The CEO further added that the largest, by revenue, mobile market, U.S.’s has also cordially welcomed Huawei with number of consumers opening up to the Chinese brands. Although, the company’s products networking equipment had been subjected to political conspiracies however Yu chimed about the consumers: “They will become more open. Our products sell worldwide, in over 170 countries, for so many years.” He also added that the response to the consumer electronic products have been much better as the company has been learning from U.S. based Alphabet Inc.’s Google Android to develop its products.
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