http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/ Engadget Comments for Huawei bids high, loses hard on two major US assets http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
Why did you read it?]]>Aug 5th 2010 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Not true, it is important to know where your gadgets come from (for example Apple's draconian control over it's manufacturers), and who is or is not allowed to do business in the "land of the free" (those same manufacturers not being allowed to compete in the USA).]]>Aug 5th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
I enjoy hearing about this type of thing.]]>Aug 5th 2010 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/+1 for not trolling ]]>Aug 5th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
Every Hiptop (Sidekick) done after MS acquired Danger in 2008 was done due to a contractual obligation. This means both the 2008 Slide replacement and the 2009 LX (the one with the high res screen). MS wanted to cancel all Hiptops from the moment they bought Danger, but they couldn't do it because they had to produce two more devices for T-Mobile.

And these devices they made were good devices and greatly outsold KIN. They even outsold KIN during the period KIN was released, even though there hadn't been a new Hiptop in a year.

So, you need to learn about business. KIN was a failure. Just because you have a contractual obligation doesn't mean you can't do a good job of it. Under MS, Danger could have produced a far better device than KIN for Verizon, if MS simply had managed the project correctly. But they didn't.

Finally, I'm not even sure KIN was a contractual obligation anyway. None of my friends at Danger mentioned it being one. I'll ask about it next time it comes up though.

MS fumbled KIN on their own. Some even say there are those within the company whose careers benefited from making KIN a disaster. All I know is it was a huge waste of MS time and money to buy out Danger just to lose all the employees and spend a pile of money making a piece of crap like KIN. They spent $750M and the only things they accomplished were to put a minor competitor out of the market (Danger) and make themselves look like idiots.]]>Aug 5th 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/trying to change the world!? The fuck3rs are trying to change the way you program apps, the way you hold your phone, the way you should experience the internet, you are a little high on the apple coolaid. What the should change is their ridiculous app approval process and get some cues in antenna designs ]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
It works for them here... virtually all non-Telstra HSPA modems here are Huawei's of some description, mainly E160's.]]>Aug 5th 2010 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
Possibly also something to do with their legendary disregard for international patents (whilst simultaneously being one of the largest single patent filing entities on the face of the planet).

This article belies the truely collossal nature of Huawei's international operations. They might not feature as a retail name, but their tech is all over your life.]]>Aug 5th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Ownership is not a problem but security concerns are, and telecommunication M&A have other tighter regulation than other areas. Alcatel for instant had to sign a mitigation agreement to acquire Lucent in 2006.

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Huawei has done everything it can to convince the US government that it's not a Chinese spy operation, etc, and apparently the ONLY reason Huawei is a concern is because the founder used to be an army officer, but the US can proclaim "national security" concerns anytime she wants in the name of protectionism.]]>Aug 5th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
I don't know about the 2wire purchase but here was definitely no way Huawei was going to win buying Motorola's assets that they were selling, lol, regardless of the price.

Last time I checked, Motorola was suing Huawei employees for stealing secret documents or something. That's pretty stupid of them to approach Motorola, especially with something like that going on.]]>Aug 5th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
Go ahead - try doing legit business in China and see how long it takes for your assets to be stolen. If you're lucky, you won't end up in People's Prison.]]>Aug 5th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
And to respond to your (irrelevant statement), yes there's thousands of MNCs operating in China without getting all of their assets stolen including ones with very sensitive operations like Boeing, Microsoft, and GE.]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/In business people don't hold grudge. At least for traditional business man.]]>Aug 5th 2010 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
They can convince all they want but with the political friction between PRC and USA. Huawei can't go further on highly sensitive sectors of the US gov't. Plus one thing, where did you get that Huawei dominates the Japanese and European Market. It must be the 99 cents store.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/
It is because it is Telecom. If the Chinese government says give us a back door and a kill switch for every telecom platform in every country. Huawei will comply. That is the concern.]]>Aug 5th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/huawei-bids-high-loses-hard-on-two-major-us-assets/Aug 5th 2010 12:39PM