No it’s not that. Huawei has a very good name in China and new models sell out in minutes.

Thanks to the US ban Huawei hands had to put a lot of work into making their own OS, ecosystem and CPU chips.

And they’ve managed to pull it off. They have some very clever people working there.

You do realise that Huawei is a huge company and their smartphone business is a small part of it, right?