Huawei, Huawei, Huawei again.
Times have been tough for the Chinese technology giant Huawei, with them getting banned everywhere in the United States, including large companies that they’d been depending on for essential materials and functions that their phones need.
With this uncertainty that Huawei’s mobile devices can cater to the needs of consumers nowadays, namely because we cannot live without Google, YouTube, Facebook and just about basically every non-Chinese social media app out there that Huawei may not be able to provide access to in the future, obviously people are steering clear of Huawei now.
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Don’t lie – you probably thought of putting yours up for sale as soon as the news broke.
Plunging Sales
In fact, the decline of Huawei’s sales are so bad that it’s plunged 40% and the company could miss its revenue numbers for the current year by as much as $30 billion, according to CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei. That’s a biiiiig, biiiiig amount of money – imagine having to lose all of it.
Of course, for the company to have come this far already, they must’ve had some brains in planning their next business moves. When there’s a problem, there will be a solution, right? Huawei’s indeed come up with an initiative to counter the poor sales of late.
If You Can’t Use Google Apps…
Huawei’s offering this special warranty to users: if popular Google and Facebook apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Gmail, Instagram, and more are unable to function on the mobile device, they’ll promise a full refund of it.
Yep, a 100% refund if you can’t access those apps on your phone.
Sounds like a good bargain, right? Huawei’s aiming to boost customer confidence in buying their smartphones with this move and improve the falling sales.
Though no one knows how they’re going to pull that off.
Sadly, the special warranty is only available in the Philippines, and not Singapore just yet, so if you still insist of having a Huawei phone and want the extra assurance, you’ll have to register for a phone in the Philippines instead.
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“It’s an initiative of our distributors with our dealers,” Huawei said in confirmation of this deal. As of now, over 30 dealers and retailers in the Philippines are going to offer the special warranty as a support to Huawei.
If the plan goes as well as expected, maybe the warranty will be extended to other countries as well in the near future – but let’s hope the apps actually still do work so it doesn’t have to come to this in the first place.
Well, I don’t know how many people will still buy Huawei, but it must feel nice knowing that if there’s a problem with your phone, you’re still able to get back every single cent…
…and then use the money to buy a Samsung #theburn
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