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Google Should Tell Congress to Mind Its Own Business

• fee.org by John Tammy

In 2016, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies shipped 140 million smartphones. More specifically, in 2016 Huawei Technologies shipped 140 million supercomputers that will enable global connectivity for more and more people. They're called smartphones for a reason. What we have in our pockets amounts to computing power that would have put all desktop models to shame not too long ago. 

Huawei is rapidly expanding its share of an exploding market for smartphones. Will it eclipse Apple and Samsung? It's hard to say. But at the very least it should be said that Huawei could beat Apple, and it could beat Samsung. For those who might dismiss either scenario, keep in mind that Apple and Steve Jobs were ridiculed ahead of the iPhone's rollout. The assumption was that dominant brands like Blackberry would continue to dominate. Until they didn't.

So while Apple could surely remain on top, we in the U.S. will not be hurt one iota if Huawei out-innovates Apple on the way to dominance in the smartphone space. To presume otherwise is to presume that China is presently being harmed because Apple gets 20 percent of its iPhone sales in China. 


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