Huawei CEO Apparently is a Big Fan of Apple & Bought iPhones for His Family

Iโ€˜ve no idea why, but I tend to have the misconception that company founders will invariably choose to utilise their own products.

โ€œBoss,โ€ I once approached my boss and asked. โ€œSeeing how youโ€™re the founder of Good Feed, you confirm only read Goody Feed articles right?โ€

And in reply, he simply smiled.

โ€œYou siao ah? Obviously, I only read The Straits Times and TODAYonline,โ€ he said, before walking off. โ€œWhy did we even employ this guy?โ€

Confused, I stared at my open palms. Is the world a lie, I wondered.

โ€œNo, bro.โ€ My friendly colleague Boonz passed by and clapped my shoulder warmly. โ€œItโ€™s just life. By the way, hereโ€™s your topic for today.โ€

He breathed into my ear: โ€œHuawei CEO Apparently Bought iPhones for His Family.โ€

And with that, he clapped me on my shoulder again and left.

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Again I stared at my open palms, and again I wondered.

Yeah, the worldโ€™s a lie alright.

Huawei CEO Apparently Bought iPhones for His Family

Honestly speaking, I would think it highly unusual that the founder of one of the worldโ€™s largest phone manufacturers, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, would ever admit that heโ€™s a big fan of one of the Chinese smartphone makerโ€™s biggest rivals.

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But according to the South China Morning Post, thatโ€™s exactly what went down. In an interview with state media, he reportedly revealed that he bought Apple iPhones for his family upon leaving China.

โ€œiPhone has a good ecosystem and when my family are abroad, I still buy them iPhones, so one canโ€™t narrowly think a love for Huawei should mean loving Huawei phones,โ€ he said.

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Well, fair enough, but it seems that over in China, they donโ€™t quite think that way. 

According to Independentthere were calls for the tech boss to boycott the US firm, in a bid to thwart the US Governmentโ€™s recently declared Huawei ban.

After placing Huawei on its Entity List earlier this week, Huawei has just three months, before itโ€™s blocked off from any further Android updates from Google.

The development comes after the Trump administrationโ€™s bold claim, in which Huaweiโ€™s revealed to have alleged ties to the Chinese government. If the ties are true, it will mean the possibility of China using Huawei devices as surveillance tools.

No proof, however, has been publicly shared thus far.

But Huaweiโ€™s reportedly not afraid

Despite the dire consequences Huawei will surely incur from this latest development, Mr Zhengfei has expressed that the US has underestimated his companyโ€™s strength, and said that Huaweiโ€™s prepared to operate without reliance on US firms.

โ€œThe US 90-day temporary licence [to do business with Google] does not have much impact on us, we are ready,โ€ he reportedly said earlier this week.

Also, even though thereโ€™ll be a substantial profit to gain in his own country if he boycotts Apple, heโ€™s apparently against punishing Apple for its US government policy.

A true hardcore Apple fan, alright. As a fellow Apple fan, kudos, Mr Zhengfei!

However, Huawei employees arenโ€™t quite allowed such a luxury. Earlier this year, a tweet from the official Huawei account was allegedly marked with the trademark โ€œvia Twitter for iPhoneโ€.

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Two employees who were responsible for the cock-up were reportedly demoted after that.

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And soโ€ฆ whatโ€™s the moral of the story here?

Well, for one, it seems that passion, despite what everyone else says, does not override your business interests.

And for twoโ€ฆ

Donโ€™t be surprised if we find out one day that Jeff Bezos uses Taobao too.

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