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No need for Windows

“We have no plans to build our own OS. It’s easy to design a new OS, but the problem is building the ecosystem around it”

Huawei CEO Yu points to a journalist as he stands near the presenter of the event, after the Huawei presentation before the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business, tells the Wall Street Journal that the Chinese firm will ship 80 million smartphones this year. They all operate on Android. He said Huawei dropped the Windows Phone OS after losing money on phones installed with it for two straight years.


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