Reuters is saying today that one matter under consideration in the export controls placed on ZTE is the license for Android. What a hit that would be. We forget sometimes that the US tech engine generates some pretty good operating systems that are used by companies all over the world. Think about the impact of not getting a new OS when the next version comes out, or getting updates for things that are already sold. No doubt the Chinese have already stolen it multiple times over. They can make that work for awhile, but if these trade negotiations don’t start soon, the pain may be more than China might have guessed.
Microsoft was smart enough to avoid this kind of confusion by selling the Chinese their own version of Windows 10. By now that one is probably used to spy on everyone using it. That probably includes more than Chinese.
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