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It Gets Even Worse For Huawei

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Huawei ban continues to showcase it's effects. It's no longer just Google's Android in the balance. The list of both hardware and software companies cutting ties with Huawei is growing and now includes an official SD card ban and Matebook removal from the Microsoft store.

Transcript

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0:00.0

More bad news for Huawei, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it's, uh, everyone's piling on. I guess that's how this goes in these situations

0:16.8

but Microsoft removes Huawei laptop listings from its online store.

0:23.0

So apparently Microsoft has now joined in to the parade year

0:29.0

claiming or presumably responding to the executive order,

0:34.9

to the government mandate here

0:38.8

to kind of avoid interacting with Huawei. This is kind of an interesting one where they're just the vendor of the product.

0:48.0

Of course, it's running their operating system, so they are providing a product as well.

0:55.3

Huawei both their client and them Huawei's client in a weird way but the mate book series of laptops the they've been received really

1:07.7

well they they kind of are Macbook clones but most that have interacted with them. I actually haven't had one yet, but I've

1:15.1

watched a number of reviews and content on these laptops. People really like these things.

1:20.7

In some cases, the claims have been made that they're some of the best windows

1:24.8

laptops that are out there kind of similar to the reception to Huawei's latest

1:32.0

flagships in the smartphone department, there's the mate book, there's the mate book X pro that Will is showcasing with a tiny little slim bezel around the outside. It's like all display. The deck is

1:46.5

incredibly Macbook-esque and I can see that being offensive to some users obviously.

1:51.6

But nonetheless, as you can tell here, Microsoft piling on and

1:58.9

getting rid of these laptops. Now it's not official, it's not a statement. The article that I'm looking at here

2:05.2

just says that the listings have vanished and apparently some individuals have gone to the physical stores

2:10.4

and they're still there. So they're probably going to be selling off pre-existing inventory,

2:16.0

but with the listings being taken down,

2:18.0

it kind of gives you an indication

2:20.0

of the extent of this blacklist and the effect of it.

2:25.0

So it's not just smartphones, laptops are under a tag,

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